clinke

Old French

Alternative forms

clenche, clike, clique, cliche

Noun

clinke oblique singular, m (oblique plural clinkes, nominative singular clinkes, nominative plural clinke)

door handle

Derived terms

cliket, clichet, cleket, clequet
- → Middle English: cliket, clyket, cleket

Descendants

Middle French: clenche, clenque, clinque
- French: clenche, (dialectal) clanche
Walloon: cliche
→ Hungarian: kilincs

Further reading

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (clenche, supplement)

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