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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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kleg
noun
a key; a lock
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klegan
etymology:
origin obscure; only collected by McCormick who suggests perhaps this is a development from French
clé
note:
Grellmann (1787) collected a form
Klidin
with the same meaning from Continental gipsies.