ský

From Old Norse ský, from Proto-Germanic *skiwją (“cloud, cloud cover”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover, conceal”).

• IPA^(key): /sciː/

  Rhymes: -iː

ský n (genitive singular skýs, nominative plural ský)

1. cloud

• “ský” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

From Proto-Germanic *skiwją (“cloud, cloud cover; sky”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover, conceal”).

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈskyː/

ský n (genitive skýs, plural ský)

1. cloud
2. (in the plural) sky

• Icelandic: ský (“cloud”)
• Faroese: skýggj (“cloud”)
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sky f (“cloud”)
• Old Swedish: skȳ (“cloud, sky”)
  • Swedish: sky (“sky, heaven”)
• Old Danish: sky
  • Danish: sky (“cloud”)
    • Norwegian Bokmål: sky m or f (“cloud”)
• → Middle English: sky, skie, ske (“cloud, sky”)
  • English: sky (“sky, (obsolete) cloud”)
  • Scots: sky, skie, skey, ske (“sky”)
  • Yola: skee