Talk:Camlet

From Arabic Khaml meaning wool pile
Appears in British Latin texts from at least 1235. The OED adds: 'at the earliest known date the word was associated (by Europeans) with camel, as if stuff made of camel's hair; but there is reason to think it was originally the Arabic khamlat, from khaml; Marco Polo (ed. Yule) I. 248 (Skeat). Khaml, khamlat, is explained by Lane as "the nap or pile or villous substance on the surface of cloth"; khamlat, by Johnson, as "camelot, silk and camel's hair, also, all silk or velvet, especially pily and plushy"'. ['camlet, n.', OED, 2nd ed. (1989)] On the borrowing into the Welsh, see Parry-Williams (1923)a, p.79.

From Arabic خمل، خملة hence مخمل

--Wool Bridge (talk) 11:52, 30 May 2018 (UTC)