clufu

== Old English == === 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) 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 a bulb or tuber (of a plant) an ear (of corn) ==== Declension ==== Strong ō-stem: ==== Related terms ==== clufeht ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: clove, clof, cloweEnglish: cloveScots: clow === Further reading === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “clufu”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.