etymology of одеяло

[Hugh McLean]

I was amused that my rash suggestion that English "don" might be related 
to the Slavic root den-, meaning "put on clothes" proved a typical 
example of overingenious and overconfident folk etymology.  "Don' is 
simply a contraction of 'do on.'
>  одеяло ---odejat comes from the the Greek---See Preobazhenskii Page 
> 639, Volume I , 1910-1914, pub Moscow 1959
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>> 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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