Morpheme
Tapestry
Type
free base
Denotation
heavy woven cloth
Etymology
Middle English tapestrie; Old French tapisserie, from tapisser, from tapis + -er; Middle French tapiz; Latin tapētem and/or Byzantine Greek tapētion; Ancient Greek tapētos, from tapēs
Evidence
tapestried, tapestries, tapestry, tapestrying
Notes
unetymological <t> by 1580s on analogy of -istry
