cloth
Middle English
/klɑːθ/, /klɔːθ/
noun
Definitions
- cloth; fabric or an individual piece of it, especially made by weaving:
- (often in the plural) An item of clothes; a garment; something to be worn.
- Clothes, apparel; what is worn.
- (Late ME) A bodily tissue or layer.
- (Late ME) An illness or medical condition evident from boils.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English clāþ (cloth, covering, clothes, sail) inherited from Proto-Germanic *klaiþą (garment, cloth).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*klaiþą
Gloss
garment, cloth
Concept
Semantic Field
Clothing and grooming
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
衣
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Greencloth English
- backcloth English
- barkcloth English
- barmcloth English
- breechcloth English
- broadcloth English
- cerecloth English
- charcloth English
- cheesecloth English
- cloth English
- clothback English
- clothbound English
- clothe English
- clothes English
- clothier English
- clothify English
- clothless English
- clothlike English
- clothmaker English
- clothmaking English
- clothwork English
- clothworker English
- clothy English
- clothyard English
- crumbcloth English
- dishcloth English
- doublecloth English
- drabcloth English
- dropcloth English
- dustcloth English
- facecloth English
- floorcloth English
- footcloth English
- forecloth English
- grasscloth English
- haircloth English
- handcloth English
- headcloth English
- hearsecloth English
- hindcloth English
- horsecloth English
- housecloth English
- leathercloth English
- loincloth English
- microcloth English
- monkscloth English
- mudcloth English
- neckcloth English
- nettlecloth English
- oilcloth English
- packcloth English
- pincloth English
- sackcloth English
- saddlecloth English
- sailcloth English
- silvercloth English
- skycloth English
- tablecloth English
- tea cloth English
- teacloth English
- topcloth English
- traycloth English
- waistcloth English
- washcloth English
- *gleyt- Proto-Indo-European
- *klaiþą Proto-Germanic
- klot Swedish
- beodclaþ Old English
- bordclaþ Old English
- bordclāþ Old English
- claþ Old English
- clāþ Old English
- clāþian Old English
- clǣþ Old English
- heafodclaþ Old English
- bord Middle English
- bordcloth Middle English
- clath Middle English
- clathe Middle English
- clothe Middle English
- clothen Middle English
- clother Middle English
- clothing Middle English
- clothles Middle English
- cloþe Middle English
- *kleid Old High German
- *klēth Old Dutch
- *klēth Old Saxon
- klath Old Frisian
- klāth Old Frisian