- kenth(o)-
- kenth(o)-English meaning: rag, clothNote: also ket(h)-?Material: O.Ind. kanthü “ repaired dress “; poor. k “ot” anak “ dress, cover “; Gk. κέντρων “ skirt from rags, Flickpoem “ is Bedeutungslehnw. from the Lat .; Lat. cent ō “ from cloth zusammengenähtes dress or cover, patch work “; without nasal O.H.G. hadara f. “ Cloth, rags “ (*ha Þ r ō, IE *kotr ü), Ger. Quarrel; in addition with l derivative M.H.G. Hadel, ablaut. Ger. dial. Hudel, of it work sloppily ‘smudge”. O.Ind. kanthü “geflicktes dress”; Arm. k”ot”anak “dress, cover”; Gk. κέντρων “Rock from rag, Flickpoem” is Bedeutungslehnw. from dem Lat.; Lat. centō “from rag zusammengenähtes dress or cover, Flickwerk”; without nasal O.H.G. hadara f. “rag, clout” (*haÞrō, IE *kotrü), Ger. Hadern; in addition with l-derivative M.H.G. Hadel, ablaut. Ger. dial. Hudel, therefrom hudeln ‘schmieren”. Maybe Alb.Gheg (*hadara) çandra ‘supporting beam for the wall or fence”.References: WP. I 402 f., WH. I 200.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.