English Explanatory Dictionary

clead

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To clothe.
noun
  1. Clothing, attire.

Word forms

clead cleads cleading cleaded cleed cled cleid cleath clethe cleith cleth

Etymology

From Middle English clethen, from Old English clǣþan (“to clothe”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaiþijan (“to clothe”), from Proto-Germanic *klaiþijaną (“to clothe”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick to, adhere”). Cognate with Scots cleed, cleid (“to clothe”). Doublet of cloth, clothe, and clad.

Derived words

cleading
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