{"id":1216,"date":"2021-06-27T12:18:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2021-06-27T12:39:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:39:40","slug":"adventures-in-etymology-15-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1216","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Etymology 15 &#8211; Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology 15 &amp;#8211; Sky\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-06-27T12:18:04+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Today we are looking at the word sky [ska\u026a].\n\n\n\nDefinition:\n- the region of the clouds or the upper air; the upper atmosphere of the earth\n- the heavens or firmament, appearing as a great arch or vault\n- the supernal or celestial heaven\n\nIt comes fro...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sky2.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8081\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1216-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sky2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sky2.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sky2.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sky2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1216-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sky2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"sky2.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Today we are looking at the word <strong>sky<\/strong> [ska\u026a].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/28349774715\/in\/album-72157606452104896\/\" title=\"Clouds\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8661\/28349774715_72b916603d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Clouds\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Definition<\/strong>:<br \/>\n&#8211; the region of the clouds or the upper air; the upper atmosphere of the earth<br \/>\n&#8211; the heavens or firmament, appearing as a great arch or vault<br \/>\n&#8211; the supernal or celestial heaven<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Middle English word <em>sky<\/em> [ski\u02d0] (sky, cloud, mist), from the Old Norse <em>sk\u00fd<\/em> [\u02c8sky\u02d0] (cloud), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*skiwj\u0105<\/em> [\u02c8skiw.j\u0251\u0303] (cloud, sky), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*(s)kewH-<\/em> (to cover, hide, cloud) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/sky#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In Old English the word for <strong>sky<\/strong> (and heaven) was <strong>heofon<\/strong> [\u02c8he\u035co.von], from the Proto-West Germanic <em>*hebn<\/em> (sky, heaven), which became <strong>heaven<\/strong> in modern English [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/heofon#Old_English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related words in other languages include <strong>sky<\/strong> [\u02c8sky\u02c0] (cloud) in Danish, <strong>sky<\/strong> [\u0282y\u02d0] (cloud) in Norwegian, <strong>sky<\/strong> [\u0267y\u02d0] (sky, cloud) in Swedish, <strong>sk\u00fd<\/strong> [sci\u02d0] (cloud) in Icelandic,and <strong>sk\u00fdggj<\/strong> [sk\u028at\u0361\u0283\u02d0] (cloud) in Faroese. A more common word for sky in Swedish is <strong>himmel<\/strong>, and cloud is <strong>moln<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/skiwj%C4%85\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/urad7IQyz_8\">video<\/a> I made of this information:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/urad7IQyz_8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video made with <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/37vAg5P\">Doodly<\/a> &#8211; an easy-to-use animated video creator [affiliate link].<\/p>\n<p>I also write about etymology on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/\">Omniglot Blog<\/a>. There are more details about words for sky in the post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=16974\">When is the sky not the sky?<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology 15 &amp;#8211; Sky\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-06-27T12:18:04+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Today we are looking at the word sky [ska\u026a].\n\n\n\nDefinition:\n- the region of the clouds or the upper air; the upper atmosphere of the earth\n- the heavens or firmament, appearing as a great arch or vault\n- the supernal or celestial heaven\n\nIt comes fro...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sky2.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8082\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1216-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sky2.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sky2.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sky2.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sky2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1216-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sky2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"sky2.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Today we are looking at the word sky [ska\u026a]. Definition: &#8211; the region of the clouds or the upper air; the upper atmosphere of the earth &#8211; the heavens or firmament, appearing as a great arch or vault &#8211; the supernal or celestial heaven It comes from the Middle English word sky [ski\u02d0] (sky, cloud, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,31,20,56,95,29,4,84,55,64,1,57,59,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-etymology","category-danish","category-english","category-etymology","category-faroese-foroyskt-mal","category-icelandic","category-language","category-norwegian-norsk","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-old-norse-dnsk-tunga","category-podcast","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-swedish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}