Sky
Translingual
editEtymology
editProper noun
editSky
- Sky Crater (a crater in Thule, Arrokoth, Kuiper Belt, Solar System)
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom sky. As a surname, a translation of German Himmel and an anglicization of Ashkenazic surnames ending in -sky.
Proper noun
editSky
- A surname.
- A unisex given name from English.
- 1981, William Boyd, On the Yankee Station, Hamilton,, →ISBN, page 17:
- The bad thing was she took my son Skiff with her. It's a dumb name I know, but at the time he was born all the kids were being called things like Sky and Saffron and Powie, and I was really sold on sailing.
Related terms
editEtymology 2
editProper noun
editSky
- Obsolete form of Skye (“Scottish island”).
- 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson:
- A strange instance of something of this nature, even when on horseback, happened when he was in the isle of Sky.
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