etymology of одеяло

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2011/1/22 Hugh McLean <hmclean at berkeley.edu>

> 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
>>
>> 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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