Where does “clamp” come from?

clamp (Middle Dutch) comes from Proto-Germanic klampō — clamp, clasp, cramp.

Ancestry of “clamp”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Proto-Germanic	klampō	clamp, clasp, cramp

Words derived from “clamp”

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