English

rainjacket

From rain + jacket.

A compound of rain + jacket

Proto-Germanic *regną ‘rain’

Proto-West Germanic *regn ‘rain’

Old English reġn ‘rain’

Middle English reyn

English rain

Arabic شَكّ ‘breastplate’

Old French jaque ‘a gambison’

Middle French jacquet

Today it means

noun The jacket counterpart of a raincoat; (loosely) any raincoat.

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

Etymograph / rainjacket