The story
- Old English · inherited fromwǣd“garment”
- English todaywidow's weeds
From (now) fossil word weeds (“garments, esp. mourning garments”), from Old English wǣd (“garment”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
widow's weeds
Today it means: black garments worn by widows in mourning Full definition →
Old English wǣd