English
SoundCloud
From the company name SoundCloud, an audio streaming service founded in 2007, from sound + cloud (“the Internet; cloud computing”).
A compound of sound + cloud ‘the Internet’
Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- ‘to sound, resound’
Latin sonus ‘sound’
Anglo-Norman soun
Middle English soun
Middle English sownde
English sound
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
verb To use, or upload music to, the music streaming service SoundCloud.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / SoundCloud