clinke

Old French

Alternative forms

• clenche, clike, clique, cliche

Noun

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

1. 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)