English

grasscloth

From grass + cloth.

A compound of grass + cloth

Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- ‘to grow’

Proto-Germanic *grasą

Proto-West Germanic *gras

Old English græs

Middle English gras ‘a grass’

English grass

Proto-Germanic *klaiþą ‘garment’

Proto-West Germanic *klaiþ

Old English clāþ ‘cloth, clothes, covering, sail’

Middle English cloth

English cloth

Today it means

noun A wall covering made from the fibres of jute, rushes or other grasses.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / grasscloth