Where does “cluster” come from?

cluster (French) comes from English cluster, from Middle English cluster, from Old English cluster, from Proto-Germanic klus-.

cluster (French): cluster

Definitions

  1. cluster

Ancestry of “cluster”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishclusterA group or bunch of several discrete items that...
2Middle Englishcluster—
3Old Englishcluster—
4Proto-Germanicklus-—
Every word from Proto-Germanic klus- →Every word from Old English cluster →Every word from Middle English cluster →
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