Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like. · To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on. · To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt. · To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole. · A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc. · A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future. · A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)
From Middle English patche, of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of earlier Middle English placche (“patch, spot, piece of cloth”), from Old English *plæċċ, *pleċċ (“a spot, mark, patch”), from Proto-West Germanic *plakkju, from Proto-Germanic *plakjō (“spot, stain”). For the loss of l compare pat from Middle English platten. Germanic cognates would then include Middle English plecke, dialectal English pleck (“plot of ground, patch”), West Frisian plak (“place, spot”), Low German Plakk, Plakke (“spot, piece, patch”), Dutch plek (“spot, place, stain, patch”), Dutch plak (“piece, slab”), Swedish plagg (“garment”), Faroese plagg (“cloth, rag”). Or, possibly a variant of Old French pieche, dialectal variant of piece (“piece”). Compare also Old Occitan petaç (“patch”).
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- Inherited-form mentionpaccheenm
- Cognate mentionplaccheenm · patch, spot, piece of cloth
- Inherited-form mention*plæċċang
- Inherited-form mention*plakkjugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*plakjōgem-pro · spot, stain
- Cognate mentionpleckeenm
- Cognate mentionplecken · plot of ground, patch
- Cognate mentionplakfy
- Cognate mentionPlakknds
- Cognate mentionpleknl · spot, place, stain, patch
- Cognate mentionplaknl · piece, slab
- Cognate mentionplaggsv · garment
- Cognate mentionplaggfo · cloth, rag
- Derivation mentionpiechefro
- Cognate mentionpetaçpro · patch
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