Old English · noun
clam
Normalised clām
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /klɑːm/
- Syllables
- klɑːm (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- cloamclammudbondfettergrip
clam1 · noun · masculine
Senses
-
mud
Declension · strong a-stem
clam2 · noun · masculine
Senses
-
bond, fetter, grip, grasp
wǣron mīne fēt, · forste ġebunden, caldum clommum, · þǣr þā ċeare sēofedun. Hāt ymb heortan · hungor innan slāt merewērġes mōd. · Þæt sē mon ne wāt
then it beats near cliffs. My feet were squeezed by cold, bound by frost, with cold fetters, when there we bemoaned sorrows. Hot about heart, hunger within tore a sea-weary mind. The man didn't know that,
þonne hē be clifum cnossað. · Calde ġeþrungen
Declension
All forms (12)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *klaim (“mortar, clay”).
Descendants
cloam, clam
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