Sky

See also: sky, SKY, ský, -sky, and -ský

Translingual

Etymology

English sky

Proper noun

Sky

1. Sky Crater (a crater in Thule, Arrokoth, Kuiper Belt, Solar System)

English

Etymology 1

From sky. As a surname, a translation of German Himmel and an anglicization of Ashkenazic surnames ending in -sky.

Proper noun

Sky

1. A surname.
2. 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

• Skye

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Sky

1. 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.

Anagrams

• KYS, YKS, YSK, Yks., kys