skee
English edit
Noun edit
skee (plural skees)
Verb edit
skee (third-person singular simple present skees, present participle skeeing, simple past and past participle skeed)
See also edit
Anagrams edit
Manx edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
skee
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Mutation edit
Manx mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
skee | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Yola edit
Alternative forms edit
- skir (verb)
Etymology edit
From Middle English sky, from Old Norse ský, from Proto-Germanic *skiwją.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
skee
- sky
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:
- Our eein wode b' mistern t' dearnt up ee skee.
- Our eyes would be dazzled to look up to the sky.
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 67