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- Old English · inherited fromclāþas“clothes”
- Middle English · inherited fromclathes
- English todayclaes
Variant of clathes, from Middle English clathes, from Old English clāþas (“clothes”), plural of clāþ (“cloth”). More at clothes.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishclāþas all →
clothes
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.