clango

== Italian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈklan.ɡo/ Rhymes: -anɡo Hyphenation: clàn‧go === Verb === clango first-person singular present indicative of clangere == Latin == === Etymology === Likely related to Ancient Greek κλᾰ́ζω (klắzō, “make a sharp noise”, verb) and κλᾰγγή (klăngḗ, “shrill sound”, noun). The details and further cognates are uncertain. Schrijver 1991 derives both Latin clang- and Greek κλᾰγγ- (klăng-) from Osthoff's Law shortening of earlier *klāng-, from *klh₂-n-g-, from a root *klh₂g- with a nasal infix *-n-. However, Schrijver is hesitant about reconstructing the root due to its expressive nature. In contrast, Beekes 2010 rejects *klh₂g-, saying it would produce a Greek form in *κλᾱγ- (*klāg-) rather than κλᾰγ- (klăg-), and rejects *klag­- for having *a (which Beekes does not accept as a PIE phoneme). Beekes concludes that the root "must have been adopted from a non-IE language", and compares Old Norse hlakka (“to cry”) as another possible cognate, suggesting that its geminate -kk- could go back to original -*-nk-. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɫaŋ.ɡoː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈklaŋ.ɡo] === Verb === clangō (present infinitive clangere, perfect active clanguī); third conjugation, no supine stem, third person-only in the passive to clang (transitive) to sound out (a signal, etc., of a trumpet) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Italian: clangere === References === === Further reading === “clango”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “clango”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.