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SkyEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From sky. As a surname, a translation of German Himmel and an anglicization of Ashkenazic surnames ending in -sky.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗skyEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
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.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗skyEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Volsci (“a tribe who opposed the Romans”).
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Olaus Magnus, Devil sense
fiende / fiende / 1555
Svenska Akademiens ordbok — FIENDEwitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Jónsbók, the nearest relative as heir
frændi / frændi / manuscript dated circa 1360–1400 by ONP
Dictionary of Old Norse Prose — frǽndi, masculine nounwitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗06
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