Re: Clock Not Chiming on Quarter Hour ...

And in Latin clocca.

"Robert Feiertag" <rfeierta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jack Denver <nunuvyer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I did not know that the word "clock" means "bell." Thank you for
that, too!


Yes, from the Dutch "klok" and more distantly from the German "Glocke"
(as
in Glockenspiel). Like "gong" I think the word is an Onomatopoeia - it
describes the sound that the object makes.


Also the French "cloche" (Spelling is probably wrong; French isn't my
first,
second, or third language."

If I'm not mistaken, "glockenspiel" is literally "bell play"

Bob




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