Etymograph

English

supercloud

From super- + cloud.

Formed from super- + cloud

Proto-Indo-European *gel- ‘to ball up’

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Proto-Germanic *klūtaz ‘lump’

Proto-West Germanic *klūt ‘lump, mass’

Old English clūd ‘mass of stone’

Middle English cloud ‘a cloud’

English cloud

Today it means

noun A very large cloud of stellar material.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “supercloud”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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