köken: From imbrogliare (“to tangle”), cognate with and probably from an earlier form of French embrouiller (“muddle, embroil”), from em- (“en-”) + brouiller.
köken: From Middle Dutch cluwen, from Old Dutch *kliuwīn, from Proto-Germanic *kliuwīną, *klewô, from Proto-Indo-European *glew-. Cognate with English clew.
köken: From the bony- stem of the verb bonyolít (“to complicate”) + -odalom (noun-forming suffix). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.