Toward the clouds or the sky; in the direction of the clouds.
From 'cloud' plus '-ward' (Old English suffix from 'weard,' meaning direction or position). This directional suffix appears in 'toward,' 'skyward,' and 'homeward,' indicating movement toward something.
The '-ward' suffix is one of English's oldest directional tools, but it's slowly becoming archaic—we prefer 'toward the clouds' in modern speech, which shows how we're losing the ability to create directional words on the fly, leaving us with fossilized forms like 'forward' and 'backward.'
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