| 1 | English | huddle | A dense and disorderly crowd; A brief meeting of... |
| 2 | Middle English | hudelen | — |
| 3 | Middle English | huderen | — |
| 4 | Middle English | hoderen | to cover; press together; huddle |
| 5 | Middle English | huden | — |
| 6 | Old English | hȳdan | to hide, conceal, preserve; to conceal; hide |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | hūdijaną | to hide, conceal |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kewdʰ- | to cover, encase; to hide, conceal; to cover,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kew- | to caw, to howl; to cover, hide; to cover, hide,... |