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cildclaþas

, child + clothes.
Searchable Lemmata: cildclaþas (OE).
Alternate Forms: cildclaþes, cildclaðum.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Textile; swaddling clothes, for an infant to be laid in a cradle.(ante 1100)
1. Illi cadentes parvulum pannis adorant obsitum verum fatentur & deum munus ferendo mysticum hi feallende cild mid cildclaðum gebædon bewundon soþne hi andettan & God lac berende rynelice. Gloss. [DOE HyGl 2 (Milfull) (0214 (43.3))]
2. Cunabula .i. crepundia initia rudimenta ł panni infantie cildclaþas ł cradelas ł primordia. Gloss. [DOE HlGl (Oliphant) (1740 (C2151))]
3. Cune ł crepundie clidclaþes. [DOE AntGl 2 (Kindschi) (0745 (742))]
OE; Primarily Gloss.
Sex: Infant    Use: Secular    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, compound of cild 'child' + claþas 'cloths, clothes'.
WF: Compound
Etym Cog:
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