clufu

Old English

Gārleaces clufe

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklu.fu/, [ˈklu.vu]

Noun

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

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	clufu	clufa, clufe
accusative	clufe	clufa, clufe
genitive	clufe	clufa
dative	clufe	clufum

Related terms

• clufeht

Descendants

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

Further reading

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “clufu”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.