Etymology

pleathered

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Today it means: Dressed or upholstered in pleather. Full definition →

English pleather ← Middle English lether ← Old English leþer
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The story

  1. Proto-Hellenic*plátʰyō
  2. Proto-Hellenic*plát͏̌t͏̌ō?
  3. Ancient Greekπλάσσω (plássō)
  4. Ancient Greekπλᾰστῐκός (plăstĭkós)
  5. Latinplasticus
  6. Englishplastic
  7. Proto-Celtic*letros
  8. Proto-Germanic*leþrą
  9. Proto-West Germanic*leþr
  10. Old Englishleþer
  11. Middle Englishlether
  12. Englishleather
  13. Englishpleather
  14. English todaypleathered

From pleather + -ed.

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