lid

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱel-
2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱléyti
3. Proto-Indo-European*ḱley-
4. Proto-Indo-European*ḱlitós
5. Proto-Indo-European*ḱlitóm
6. Proto-Germanic*hlidą
7. Proto-West Germanic*hlid
8. Old Englishhlid
9. Middle Englishlid
10. English todaylid

Inherited from Middle English lid, lyd, from Old English hlid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (compare Dutch lid, German Lid (“eyelid”), Swedish lid (“gate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitós (“covered”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to cover”).

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