HT204150 I accidentally deleted my icloud contacts how do i get them back to icloud

I wanted to delete some of my contacts from my daughters ipod touch and realized i was deleting contacts from the cloud list.  So that took them fromthe cloud.  if i have all the contacts on my iphone still, how do i get them back into the cloud list?

Are you saying there are two icloud accounts involved?  Yours and your daughter's?  If so, you can't get contacts from your device to your daughter via icloud.
If you both share the same icloud account (and I would caution you that this is not how icloud is designed to be used - each user should use their own account, otherwise you will both have all data such as email, contacts, calendars, notes, and reminders shared without being able to have personal data on one's own device), then deleting from an icloud database, like contacts, removes them from all devices associated with that account.  The only way to possibly get back the data is to perform a restore from a backup - assuming there are still any "older" backups, before the contacts were wiped.

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