Where does “traycloth” come from?
traycloth (English) comes from English tray, from English trans, from English transgender, from English gender, from Middle English gender, from Middle French gendre, from Latin genus, from Proto-Italic genos — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
traycloth (English): A cloth laid across a tray on which to serve...
Definitions
- A cloth laid across a tray on which to serve...
Ancestry of “traycloth”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | tray | A small, typically rectangular or round, flat,... |
| 2 | English | trans | In a double bond in which the greater radical on... |
| 3 | English | transgender | Having a gender which is different from the sex... |
| 4 | English | gender | Class; kind; A division of nouns and pronouns ... |
| 5 | Middle English | gender | — |
| 6 | Middle French | gendre | — |
| 7 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |