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CLÚD

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
CLÚD, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§131;
A stone, rock, hill; saxum, rupes, collis
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  • Clúdas feóllan of muntum

    stones fell from the mountains,

    • Ors. 6, 2
    • ;
    • Bos. 117, 12
    • .
  • Clúd

    rupes,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 9, 27
    • ;
    • Som. II. 24
    • .
  • Mid clúdum ymbweaxen

    surrounded with rocks,

    • Ors. 3, 9
    • ;
    • Bos. 67, 22
    • .
  • Sumra wyrta eard biþ on clúdum

    the soil of some herbs is on rocks,

    • Bt. 34, 10
    • ;
    • Fox 148, 24
    • .
  • Beorh oððe clúd

    collis,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 9, 28
    • ;
    • Som. Ii, 46
    • .
Etymology
[
Laym. clude, chlud a cliff, rock:
Orm. cludess hills:
Plat. kluut, klute, kloot:
Dut. kluit, f; kloot, m:
Kil. klot:
Ger. klosz, m. gleba:
M. H. Ger. klóz, m. a lump:
O. H. Ger. kloz, m. massa:
Dan. klode, m. f. a ball:
Swed. klot, n:
Icel. klót, n. knob on a sword's hilt: hence the Eng. CLOD.
]
Derived forms
stán-clúd
Linked entries
v.  CLÚT.
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  • CLÚD, n.