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The word "cloud" comes directly from Middle English, indirectly from the Old English word clūd. This word meant originally meant mass of rock and it came from a very old German-like dialect called Proto-Germanic. How did we get cloud from mass of rock? Perhaps if you look at a cumulus cloud, you'll see it resembles a mass of rock. Eventually over time, the word clūd must have took on a different meaning of what we today call a cloud.

The Old English word for cloud was weolcan, and that comes from Proto-Germanic as well.

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