Proto-Germanic

*klaiþą

‘garment’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Germanic *klaiþą.

6 English words in this record descend from Proto-Germanic *klaiþą, most familiar first.

• clothes ← clāþ ← *klaiþ
• cloth ← clāþ ← *klaiþ
• clad ← clad(d) ← clothen ← *clāþian ← clāþ
• clothier ← clothyer ← clother ← cloth ← clāþ
• claes ← clathes ← clāþas ← clāþ ← *klaiþ
• clothless ← clothles ← cloth ← clāþ ← *klaiþ

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *klaiþą