Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To clothe.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryClothing, attire.
From Middle English clethen, from Old English clǣþan (“to clothe”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaiþijan (“to clothe”), from Proto-Germanic *klaiþijaną (“to clothe”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick to, adhere”). Cognate with Scots cleed, cleid (“to clothe”). Doublet of cloth, clothe, and clad.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionclethenenm
- Inherited-form mentionclǣþanang · to clothe
- Inherited-form mention*klaiþijangmw-pro · to clothe
- Inherited-form mention*klaiþijanągem-pro · to clothe
- Derivation mention*gley-ine-pro · to stick to, adhere
- Cognate mentioncleedsco
- Doublet mentionclothen
- Doublet mentionclotheen
- Doublet mentioncladen
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