English
clad
Clad comes from Middle English clothen ‘to put clothing on, clothe, dress’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *klaiþą.
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*klaiþą‘cloth’reconstructed
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*klaiþ‘cloth’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150clāþ‘cloth’
- Old English, derivedc. 450–1150*clāþian‘to clothe’reconstructed
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500clothen‘to put clothing on, clothe, dress’
- Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500clad(d)
- Englishearliest quotation 1879clad
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*klaiþą‘cloth’reconstructed
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*klaiþ‘cloth’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150clāþ‘cloth’
- Old English, derivedc. 450–1150*clāþian‘to clothe’reconstructed
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500clothen‘to put clothing on, clothe, dress’
- Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500clad(d)
- Englishearliest quotation 1879clad
Earliest quotation: 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes: “On all sides, Goudet is shut in by mountains;…”
Linked words
through Proto-West Germanic *klaiþ ‘cloth’
through Old English clāþ ‘cloth’
through Middle English clothen ‘to put clothing on, clothe, dress’
Today it means
adj Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *klaiþą / clad