etymology of одеяло

[Lewis B. Sckolnick]

  одеяло ---odejat comes from the the Greek---See Preobazhenskii Page 
639, Volume I , 1910-1914, pub Moscow 1959

LBS


> Odejalo, according to Vasmer, comes from the iterative odejat', from 
> odet', 'to clothe, put on [clothes], DON [is that related?]. the root 
> det', deti, is more complicated, but it is clearly pure Slavic. 

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