Etymology

bikewear

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Today it means: Clothes intended to be worn while riding a bicycle. Full definition →

English wear ← Middle English weren ← Old English werian
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The story

  1. Frenchbicycle
  2. Englishbicycleclip.
  3. Englishbike
  4. Proto-Indo-European*wes-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*woséyeti
  6. Proto-Germanic*wazjaną
  7. Proto-West Germanic*waʀjan
  8. Old Englishwerian
  9. Middle Englishweren
  10. Englishwear
  11. English todaybikewear

From bike + -wear.

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