English

rainclothes

From rain + clothes.

A compound of rain + clothes

Proto-Germanic *regną ‘rain’

Proto-West Germanic *regn ‘rain’

Old English reġn ‘rain’

Middle English reyn

English rain

Proto-Germanic *klaiþą ‘patch; cloth’

Proto-West Germanic *klaiþ ‘cloth’

Old English clāþ ‘cloth; (plural) clothes’

Middle English clothes

Today it means

noun rainwear

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

Etymograph / rainclothes