clothes

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English word clothes comes from Proto-Indo-European *gley-, and later Proto-Germanic *klaiþą (Cloth.)

*gley- (Proto-Indo-European)

to stick, smudge, to stick

*gleyt- (Proto-Indo-European)

*klaiþą (Proto-Germanic)

Cloth.

clāþ (Old English)

claþ (Old English)

(in plural) clothes. Cloth.

clāþas (Old English)

cloþes (Middle English)

(plurale tantum) clothes; clothing.

clothes (English)

(obsolete) .. (plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.. The covering of a bed; bedclothes.

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