skee

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

skee (plural skees)

  1. Obsolete form of ski.

Verb[edit]

skee (third-person singular simple present skees, present participle skeeing, simple past and past participle skeed)

  1. Obsolete form of ski.

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Manx[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

skee

  1. tired, weary, fatigued

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Mutation[edit]

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
skee unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English sky, from Old Norse ský, from Proto-Germanic *skiwją.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

skee

  1. 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 (1867), 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, page 67