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- Old English · inherited fromclūdiġ“stony, rocky”
- Middle English · inherited fromcloudy“cloudy, overcast, gloomy, dark", also "hilly, rocky”
- English todaycloudy
From Middle English cloudy (“cloudy, overcast, gloomy, dark", also "hilly, rocky”), from Old English clūdiġ (“stony, rocky”), equivalent to cloud + -y.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishclūdiġ all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.