Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes, woven fabric specifically. · Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards. · A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose. · Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.
From Middle English cloth, clath, from Old English clāþ (“cloth, clothes, covering, sail”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaiþ, from Proto-Germanic *klaiþą (“garment”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gleyt- (“to cling to, cleave, stick”) (compare Albanian ngjit (“to stick, attach, glue”)), a form of *gleh₁y- (“to smear; to stick”). Cognate with Scots clath (“cloth”), North Frisian klaid (“dress, garment”), Saterland Frisian Klood (“dress, apparel”), West Frisian klaad, kleed (“cloth, article of clothing”), Dutch kleed (“robe, dress”), Low German kleed (“dress, garment”), German Kleid (“gown, dress”), Danish klæde (“cloth, dress”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk klede, Swedish kläde (“cloth”), Icelandic klæði (“cloth, dressing”), Old English clīþan (“to adhere, stick”).
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- Inherited-form mentionclothenm
- Inherited-form mentionclāþang · cloth, clothes, covering, sail
- Inherited-form mention*klaiþgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*klaiþągem-pro · garment
- Derivation mention*gleyt-ine-pro · to cling to, cleave, stick
- Cognate mentionngjitsq · to stick, attach, glue
- Cognate mentionclathsco · cloth
- Cognate mentionklaidfrr · dress, garment
- Cognate mentionKloodstq · dress, apparel
- Cognate mentionklaadfy
- Cognate mentionkleednl · robe, dress
- Cognate mentionkleednds · dress, garment
- Cognate mentionKleidde · gown, dress
- Cognate mentionklædeda · cloth, dress
- Cognate mentionklädesv · cloth
- Cognate mentionklæðiis · cloth, dressing
- Cognate mentionclīþanang · to adhere, stick
This page abbreviates 3 auxiliary source items. The etymology narrative is not shortened. Omission counts are available in the audit fields below; consult the original for complete auxiliary material.
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