adj. (pres. ptcp.)
'rocky' (Modern English )
PGmc Ancestor
*klentaz
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
klettr (n.) 'cliff (in the landscape), cliff-face, crag, bluff, escarpment'
(ONP klettr (sb.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
OE Cognate
Phonological and morphological markers
Summary category
B2ab
hapax legomenon, but see also clynt.
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
WA 4863
OED suggests it is 'very possibly a misreading of' <clintes and> (see clint), but this suggestion is not taken up by editors.