Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Clothing. · Damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time. · Fashion. · Wearing.
To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, perfume, etc. · To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner. · To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance. · To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wes- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *woséyeti Proto-Germanic *wazjaną Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan Old English werian Middle English weren English wear Inherited from Middle English weren, from Old English werian (“to clothe, cover over; put on, wear, use; stock (land)”), from Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *wazjaną (“to clothe”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to dress, put on (clothes)”). Compare weary. Cognate to Sanskrit वस्ते (váste), Ancient Greek ἕννυμι (hénnumi, “put on”), Latin vestis (“garment”) (English vest), Albanian vesh (“dress up, wear”), Tocharian B wäs-, Old Armenian զգենում (zgenum), Welsh gwisgo, Hittite 𒉿𒀸- (waš-). Originally a weak verb (i.e. with a past tense in -ed), it became irregular during the Middle English period by analogy with verbs like beren (whence bear) and teren (whence tear).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionwerianang
- Inherited-form mention*waʀjangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*wazjanągem-pro
- Derivation mention*wes-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionवस्तेsa
- Cognate mentionἕννυμιgrc
- Cognate mentionvestisla
- Cognate mentionvesten
- Cognate mentionveshsq
- Cognate mentionwäs-txb
- Cognate mentionզգենումxcl
- Cognate mentiongwisgocy
- Cognate mention𒉿𒀸-hit
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