Klokke = ur?

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Forbindelsen er stærk mellem ur og klokke, også på flere sprog. Jeg husker f.eks. ordet klokkesmed, om urmager, men kan ikke lige finde et kilde link, pt. Men...

Uddrag fra en online etymologisk ordbog:

Citat:clock (n.)
late 14c., clokke, originally "clock with bells," probably from M.Du. clocke (Du. klok), from O.N.Fr. cloque, from M.L. (7c.) clocca "bell," probably from Celtic (cf. O.Ir. clocc, Welsh cloch "bell") and spread by Irish missionaries (unless the Celtic words are from Latin); ultimately of imitative origin. Replaced O.E. dægmæl, from dæg "day" + mæl "measure, mark." The Latin word was horologium; the Greeks used a water-clock (klepsydra, lit. "water thief"). O'clock for of the clock is c.1720.

Så det engelske "clock" har også stærke forbindelser til ordet "klokke".

Samtidig, omkring "watch":

Citat:watch (n.)
O.E. wæcce "a watching," from wæccan (see watch (v.)). Sense of "sentinel" is recorded from c.1300; that of "person or group officially patroling a town (esp. at night) to keep order, etc." is first recorded 1530s. Meaning "period of time in which a division of a ship's crew remains on deck" is from 1580s. Sense of "period into which a night was divided in ancient times" translates L. vigilia, Gk. phylake, Heb. ashmoreth.
The Hebrews divided the night into three watches, the Greeks usually into four (sometimes five), the Romans (followed by the Jews in New Testament times) into four. [OED]
The meaning "small timepiece" is from 1580s, developing from that of "a clock to wake up sleepers" (mid-15c.).

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