etymology of одеяло

[E Wayles Browne]

Truly not from the Greek. I have Preobrazhenskii's dictionary. On page 639 I don't see the word odejalo at all. 
But you will find odejalo on page 209, in the entry for det' (in Preobrazhenskii's time this verb was spelled with the old letter jat'). Odejalo and det' and many other words are pure Slavic. That means that, just like other Slavic words, they can be traced back to Indo-European, which existed up to about 3000 BC. Greek is one of the other languages that can be traced back to Indo-European. So is English. So is Sanskrit, and so are dozens and dozens of others.
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  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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