welkin

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English

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle English welken, wolken (weather; heavens; earlier cloud),[1] from Old English wolcn (cloud) (wolcnu pl (sky, heavens)),[2] from Proto-West Germanic *wolkn (cloud), from Proto-Germanic *wulkną (cloud), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wl̥g-nó-s, from *welg- (damp; wet). Cognate with Dutch wolk (cloud), German Wolke (cloud).

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Noun

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welkin (plural welkins) (archaic except literary or poetic)

  1. (also Lancashire) The sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible; the firmament.
    Synonyms: ether, (dialectal) heavens, lift
  2. The upper atmosphere occupied by clouds, flying birds, etc.
  3. (religion) The place above the Earth where God or other deities live; heaven.

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References

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  1. ^ welken, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ welkin, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021; welkin, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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