Old English edit

 
Gārleaces clufe

Etymology edit

From Proto-West Germanic *klubu, from Proto-Germanic *klubō, from the root of *kleubaną.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈklu.fu/, [ˈklu.vu]

Noun edit

clufu f (nominative plural clufe)

  1. clove (of garlic)
    • c. 9th century, Bald's Leechbook, published in Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest (1865, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green), edited and with translations by Oswald Cockayne, volume 2, page 350
      gārleaces .iii. clufe
      three cloves of garlic

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Descendants edit

  • Middle English: clove, clof, clowe
    • English: clove
    • Scots: clow

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