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Old English · noun

claþung

Normalised clāþung

Part of speech
noun, feminine
Declension
strong ō-stem
IPA
/ˈklɑː.θunɡ/
[ˈklɑː.ðuŋɡ]
Syllables
ˈklɑː · θunɡ (2 syllables)
Modern English
dressingclothingclothesputting

Meaning

  1. the act of putting on clothes or dressing

  2. clothing

Declension

Declension of claþung
SingularPlural
Nominative clāþungclāþungaclāþunge
Accusative clāþungeclāþungaclāþunge
Genitive clāþungeclāþunga
Dative clāþungeclāþungum

All forms (4)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *klaiþungu, equivalent to *clāþian + -ung.

Descendants

clothing

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