Etymology

felt

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Today it means: A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving. Full definition →

Middle English felt ← Old English felt ← Proto-West Germanic *felt
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felt · noun, verb1

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*pilto
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*felt
  3. Old English · inherited fromfelt
  4. Middle English · inherited fromfelt
  5. English todayfelt

From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.

felt · verb, adjective2

  1. Old English · derived fromfēled
  2. English todayfelt

From Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.

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