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prettygoodword) wrote2025-07-14 08:05 am
prettygoodword) wrote2025-07-14 08:05 am
sky
Okay, should be able to post more regularly again -- or at least regularly enough to run a theme week, which this time will be words for the skies, starting with:
sky (SKAI) - n., the expanse of air over the earth; (often plural) the appearance of the upper atmosphere, esp. regarding the weather; the celestial regions, the heavens; the highest level or degree.
Thanks, WikiMedia!
This, as you might expect for a very basic word, is a very old one -- attested to around 1200 in Middle English forms sky/skie/ski, also used to mean cloud/mist, which unexpectedly came not from Old English but rather Old Norse skȳ, cloud (the Old English word for sky, heofon, instead became heaven), which ultimately goes back to a PIE root meaning conceal/hide. Interesting semantic shift there.
---L.
sky (SKAI) - n., the expanse of air over the earth; (often plural) the appearance of the upper atmosphere, esp. regarding the weather; the celestial regions, the heavens; the highest level or degree.
Thanks, WikiMedia!
This, as you might expect for a very basic word, is a very old one -- attested to around 1200 in Middle English forms sky/skie/ski, also used to mean cloud/mist, which unexpectedly came not from Old English but rather Old Norse skȳ, cloud (the Old English word for sky, heofon, instead became heaven), which ultimately goes back to a PIE root meaning conceal/hide. Interesting semantic shift there.
---L.