I suppose a ship with a lot of large, white, billowy sails against a clear blue sky would look a lot like clouds. Edit: I wonder, though, if native people didn

I suppose a ship with a lot of large, white, billowy sails against a clear blue sky would look a lot like clouds. Edit: I wonder, though, if native people didn't just use the word "cloud" because they did not have a word for "sail", and that was the closest thing they looked like.