Re: kludge

>Of Yiddish <klots>

Klots is a mere transliteration for English. The same
pronunciation as for the spelling Klotz.

>actually, from MHG <kloz> 'Klumpe,
>klumpige Masse; Baumstumpf, Baumklotz'.

These are the meanigs today, too. (The figurative sense is given
by the latter sense. Also cf. the meaning of adj. stumpf and
stumpfsinnig.)

Merry Christmas.