Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the surface of the Earth as the place where the sun, moon, stars, and clouds are seen. · With a descriptive word: the part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its climate, condition, etc. · Usually preceded by the: the abode of God or the gods, angels, the souls of deceased people, etc.; heaven; also, powers emanating from heaven. · Ellipsis of sky blue.
To drink (a beverage) from a container without one's lips touching the container. · To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen; (by extension) to put (something) in an undesirable place. · To toss (something) upwards; specifically, to flip (a coin). · To clear (a high jump bar, hurdle, etc.) by a large margin.
The noun is derived from Middle English sky (“sky; cloud; mist”), also spelled ski, skie, [and other forms], from Old Norse ský (“cloud”), from Proto-Germanic *skiwją (“cloud; sky”), from *skiwô (“cloud; cloud cover, haze; sky”) (whence Old English sċēo (“cloud”) and Middle English skew (“air; sky; (rare) cloud”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover; to conceal, hide”). Partly displaced Old English heofon, which survives in the reflex heaven, still sometimes used in the sense of sky, but usually in high or poetic register. The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates The English word is cognate with Old English scēo (“cloud”), Old Saxon scio, skio, skeo (“light cloud cover”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål sky (“cloud”), Old Irish ceo (“mist, fog”), Irish ceo (“mist, fog”). It is also related to Old English scūa (“shadow, darkness”), Latin obscūrus (“dark, shadowy”), Sanskrit स्कुनाति (skunāti, “he covers”). See also hide, hose, house, hut, shoe.
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- Root classification mention*(s)kewH-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionskyenm · sky; cloud; mist
- Derivation mentionskýnon · cloud
- Derivation mention*skiwjągem-pro · cloud; sky
- Cognate mentionsċēoang · cloud
- Cognate mentionskewenm · air; sky; (rare) cloud
- Derivation mention*(s)kewH-ine-pro · to cover; to conceal, hide
- Non-cognate comparisonheofonang
- Cognate mentionscēoang · cloud
- Cognate mentionscioosx
- Cognate mentionskynb · cloud
- Cognate mentionceosga · mist, fog
- Cognate mentionceoga · mist, fog
- Cognate mentionscūaang · shadow, darkness
- Cognate mentionobscūrusla · dark, shadowy
- Cognate mentionस्कुनातिsa · he covers
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