pyjamas
What were pyjamas before they were bedtime clothes?
What do you notice?
English bedtime clothes
pyjamas
Persian: leg garment
پای جامه
The trousers came first. Night came later.
Pyjamas hides two parts: leg, and garment.
Nightwear came later. The trousers came first.
Look at the clothes you sleep in. If they have a Persian and South Asian name, that name did not begin as a bedtime word.
You can stop here. The word already moved.
Go find a traveling word
The screen was the door.
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