Clog

Morpheme

Clog

Type

free base

Denotation

lump, lump of wood, mass

Etymology

Middle English clogge; of unknown origin

Evidence

anticlog, clog, cloggable, clogged, clogger, cloggier, cloggiest, clogging, cloggy, clogless, cloglike, clogmaker, clogosphere, clogs, clogwood, clogwood, declog, nonclogging, reclog, unclog, uncloggable, unclogged

Notes

phonosemantic <cl> denoting “physical feeling or action of gripping, gathering, or lumping”