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Sky

2 stages from Old Norse to English.

Today it means the region of the atmosphere and outer space visible from earth
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Stage 1 of 2
sky
Old Norse · medieval
"a cloud"
originally meant cloud, before shifting to mean the heavens themselves
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Stage 2 of 2
sky
English · 1200s
"the region of clouds and the upper atmosphere"
settled as the English word for the heavens, replacing the earlier word heofon in general use
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