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Sky English Norse Cloud Heofon Middle Heaven Meaning

正面 1149.sky
英 [skaɪ]美 [skaɪ]

背面
释义:
n. 天空;顶点vt. 把…投向空中;把…挂得过高vi. 踢或击高空球;把桨叶翘得过高;飞涨n. (Sky)人名;(英)斯凯
例句:
1. He sat mute, speechless with ecstasy, gazing into the sky.他静静坐着,凝视天空,一言不发,心驰神往。

1. 谐音“是盖”。2. sky 【世盖 盖住世界】n.天,天空
sky 天,天空来自古诺斯语 sky,云,云层,来自 Proto-Germanic*skeujam,云,云层,来自 PIE*skeu,遮盖, 覆盖,词源同 hide,obscure.后词义由云演变为天空,而 cloud 词义由群山演变为云。
skysky: [13] Our Anglo-Saxon ancestors called the sky heofon ‘heaven’. Not until the early Middle English period did heaven begin to be pushed aside by sky, a borrowing from Old Norse ský ‘cloud’. This came ultimately from an Indo- European base meaning ‘cover’, which also produced Latin obscūrus, source of English obscure [14]. (For a while English continued to use sky for ‘cloud’ as well as for ‘sky’: the medieval Scots poet William Dunbar wrote, ‘When sable all the heaven arrays with misty vapours, clouds, and skies’.)=> obscuresky (n.)c. 1200, "a cloud," from Old Norse sky "cloud," from Proto-Germanic *skeujam "cloud, cloud cover" (cognates: Old English sceo, Old Saxon scio "cloud, region of the clouds, sky;" Old High German scuwo, Old English scua, Old Norse skuggi "shadow;" Gothic skuggwa "mirror"), from PIE root *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal" (see hide (n.1)). Meaning "upper regions of the air" is attested from c. 1300; replaced native heofon in this sense (see heaven). In Middle English, the word can still mean both "cloud" and "heaven," as still in the skies, originally "the clouds." Sky-high is from 1812; phrase the sky's the limit is attested from 1908. Sky-dive first recorded 1965; sky-writing is from 1922.sky (v.)"to raise or throw toward the skies," 1802, from sky (n.)."

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