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Where does “clopiner” come from?

clopiner (French) comes from Old French clop, from Latin cloppus.

clopiner (French): to limp; to hobble; to halt

Definitions

  1. to limp; to hobble; to halt

Ancestry of “clopiner”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchclophobbling; limping
2Latincloppus—
Every word from Latin cloppus →