An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Klinse

by Friedrich Kluge

Klinse, Klinze, feminine, ‘cleft,’ from Middle High German klinse, klimse, and with a different stage of gradation klunse, klumse, klumze, feminine, ‘slit’; Old High German *chlumuȥa, chlimuȥa, is wanting. Origin obscure.