etymology of одеяло

[Lewis B. Sckolnick]

      Oda



      Etymology

    *  From Old Turkic
      <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Turkic_language> /ota-g/.


      [edit
      <http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=oda&action=edit&section=33>]
      Noun

*oda* (/definite accusative/ *oday? 
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oday%C4%B1>*, /plural/ *odalar 
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/odalar>*)

   1. room <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/room>, chamber
      <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chamber>






On 1/22/2011 12:13 PM, Hugh McLean wrote:
> 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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