welkin

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  1. The sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible; the firmament.
  2. The upper atmosphere occupied by clouds, flying birds, etc.
  3. The place above the Earth where God or other deities live; heaven.

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wel‧kin
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/ˈwɛlkɪn/
Etimologia

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

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