köken: From Middle High German vetze (“rag, tatters”), ultimately from the root of fassen (“to grasp”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vat, item of clothing”), Old Norse fǫt (“clothes”), Portuguese fato (“clothing”), Spanish hato.
köken: From earlier flard, flerd. Of obscure origin, but apparently related to West Frisian flarde, Saterland Frisian Fludde, German Low German Flarr (“patch”). Possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *flazdō.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sek-der. Proto-Italic *sekaō Latin secō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Italic *-mn̥ Latin -men Latin segmen From secō (“to cut”) + -men (noun-forming suffix).
Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French label, lambel, of Germanic origin, from Low Frankish *labb(v)a (“torn piece of cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *lappjaz, *lappēn, *lappōn, *lapil- (“cloth stuff, rag, scraps, flap, dewlap, lobe, rabbit ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“blade”). Akin to Old High German lappa (“rag, piece of cloth”) (German Lappen (“cloths”)), Old English…