Proto-West Germanic

*klaiþ

‘cloth’

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

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

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

Etymograph / Proto-West Germanic *klaiþ