Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/klaiþijaną
Appearance
Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick, cling to”), equivalent to *klaiþą + *-janą.
Verb
[edit]*klaiþijaną
- to clothe
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *klaiþijaną (weak class 1)
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *klaiþijan
- Old English: clǣþan
- Old Saxon: *klēthian (merged with descendant of Proto-West Germanic *klaiþōn)
- Old Dutch: *klēthen, *kleithen
- Middle Dutch: cleden, cleiden (merged with descendant of Proto-West Germanic *klaiþōn)
- ⇒ Old Dutch: anakleiden
- Old High German: *kleiden
- Middle High German: kleiden (merged with descendant of Proto-West Germanic *klaiþōn)
- German: kleiden
- Middle High German: kleiden (merged with descendant of Proto-West Germanic *klaiþōn)
- Old Norse: klæða