from Middle High German klem ‘narrow’, ‘tight’,
‘scarce’, hence a nickname for a thin or inhibited person, or
alternatively a topographic name for someone living in a narrow,
precipitous place, from the Middle High German noun form klemme
‘constriction’.
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