Think of one small, bright sound: two hard thin things — a glass, a spoon, a key — touch for a moment, ring once, and stop. It is not loud, it is not dull, and it does not carry on. The verb and the noun are the same moment seen from two sides: the verb is the touching, the noun is the sound that comes out of it.
From the word’s history
The word goes back through Middle English clinken to a Germanic root meaning 'to sound'. The source adds that it is perhaps imitative, copying the noise of metal against metal — which fits a word that is over almost as soon as you say it.
這個字經過中古英文 clinken，可以追到日耳曼語裡表示「發出聲響」的字根。來源還說它可能是擬聲字，模仿金屬碰金屬的聲音。這一點跟它的念法很合：/klɪŋk/ 唸出來也是短短亮亮的一下。
Wiktionary entry 'clink' etymology 1 (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1096013412:6705): 'From Middle English clinken, from Old English *clincan ... from Proto-Germanic *klinganą (to sound) ... Perhaps of onomatopoeic origin, as metal against metal.'
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