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The origin of the word is unknown but could be from a Scandinavian word 'Clonne' or German 'Klonne' or even Icelandic, 'Klunnie' meaning clumsy person. The Latin 'Colonus' may mean farmer and rustic person but also lists 'clumsy' in translation. The Latin derivation may have arrived in England first

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