coldness

The story

1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*kaldanassī“coldness”
2. Old English · inherited fromcealdness
3. Middle English · inherited fromcoldnesse
4. English todaycoldness

From Middle English coldnesse, from Old English cealdness, cealdnys (“coldness”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaldanassī (“coldness”), equivalent to cold + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian kâldens (“coldness”), Middle Low German koldenisse, kōldenisse (“coldness”), Middle High German kaltnisse, keltnisse (“coldness”).