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cotton, chiton, tunic

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• Anatolian Neolithic substrate?

  • Eastern substrate *kito flax

    • Sumerian 𒃰 gada flax
    • Sumerian 𒆤 kid cloth mat
    • Akkadian 𒃰 kitu flax

      • Old Armenian կտաւ ktaw flax

        • Armenian Կտավ ktav flax, linen, canvas
    • Ugaritic 𐎖𐎉 qṭ flax, linseed
    • Central substrate *kito-na

      • Aramaic 𐡊𐡉𐡕𐡍𐡀 kittānā linen, flax

        • Aramaic 𐡊𐡉𐡕𐡅𐡍𐡀 kittōnā linen garment, tunic, shirt, layer, shell

          • Hebrew כֻּתֹּנֶת kutónet tunic, coat, robe
        • Arabic كَتَّان kattān flax, linen

          • Geʿez ክታን kətan linen
          • Swahili katani flax or hemp fiber
        • Arabic قُطْن quṭn cotton

          • Egyptian Arabic قُطُن quṭun

            • Italian cotone

              • French coton

                • English cotton
          • Maghrebi Arabic

            • Andalusi Arabic قُطُن quṭun

              • Old Spanish alcoton cotton borrowed with article al-

                • Spanish algodón cotton
                • Old French auqueton

                  • English aketon
        • Persian کتان katân flax, linen
      • Hellenic

        • Mycenaean Greek 𐀑𐀵 ki-to chiton, tunic
        • Classical Greek χῐτών khitṓn tunic, coat of mail, covering, clothes

          • Greek χιτώνας chiton, tunic
          • Latin chitōn

            • English chiton
            • French chitine

              • English chitin
      • Western substrate *tonika with multiple metathesis

        • Mycenaean Greek 𐀵𐀖𐀏 to-mi-ka unclear word related to textiles

          • Mycenaean Greek 𐀵𐀛𐀊 to-ni-ja unclear word related to textiles
          • Mycenaean Greek 𐀶𐀙𐀜 tu-na-no unclear word related to textiles
        • Etruscan

          • Latin tunica tunic

            • Central Romance

              • Italian tonaca habit, frock
            • Western Romance

              • Spanish tonga coating
            • French tunique tunic, membrane

              • English tunic
            • Italian tunica tunic
            • Spanish túnica tunic
            • Latin tunicō I put a tunic on

              • Vulgar Latin *intunicō

                • Eastern Romance

                  • Romanian a întuneca to darken, to shroud
                • Western Romance

                  • Spanish entunicar to put on a tunic, to cover with primer
            • Latin tunicātus wearing a tunic

              • Translingual Tunicata taxonomic subphylum, the sea squirts

                • English tunicate

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Collected English words

cotton, aketon, chiton, chitin, tunic, Tunicata, tunicate