Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sky
Participle: skyed
Gerund: skying
Indicative
Present
| I | sky |
| you | sky |
| he;she;it | skys |
| we | sky |
| you | sky |
| they | sky |
Perfect
| I | have skyed |
| you | have skyed |
| he;she;it | has skyed |
| we | have skyed |
| you | have skyed |
| they | have skyed |
Past
| I | skyed |
| you | skyed |
| he;she;it | skyed |
| we | skyed |
| you | skyed |
| they | skyed |
Pluperfect
| I | had skyed |
| you | had skyed |
| he;she;it | had skyed |
| we | had skyed |
| you | had skyed |
| they | had skyed |
Future
| I | will sky |
| you | will sky |
| he;she;it | will sky |
| we | will sky |
| you | will sky |
| they | will sky |
Future Perfect
| I | will have skyed |
| you | will have skyed |
| he;she;it | will have skyed |
| we | will have skyed |
| you | will have skyed |
| they | will have skyed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sky |
| you | sky |
| he;she;it | sky |
| we | sky |
| you | sky |
| they | sky |
Perfect
| I | have skyed |
| you | have skyed |
| he;she;it | have skyed |
| we | have skyed |
| you | have skyed |
| they | have skyed |
Imperfect
| I | skyed |
| you | skyed |
| he;she;it | skyed |
| we | skyed |
| you | skyed |
| they | skyed |
Pluperfect
| I | had skyed |
| you | had skyed |
| he;she;it | had skyed |
| we | had skyed |
| you | had skyed |
| they | had skyed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sky |
| you | would sky |
| he;she;it | would sky |
| we | would sky |
| you | would sky |
| they | would sky |
Perfect
| I | would have skyed |
| you | would have skyed |
| he;she;it | would have skyed |
| we | would have skyed |
| you | would have skyed |
| they | would have skyed |
Imperative
| you | sky |
| we | Let's sky |
| you | sky |
Verbs conjugated like 'sky'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'sky'
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. The noun is derived from Middle English sky (“sky; cloud; mist”), also spelled ski, skie, [and other forms], from Old Norse ský (“cloud”), from Proto-Germanic *skiwją (“cloud; sky”), from *skiwô (“cloud; cloud cover, haze; sky”) (whence Old English sċēo (“cloud”) and Middle English skew (“air; sky; (rare) cloud”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover; to conceal, hide”).
2. Partly displaced Old English heofon, which survives in the reflex heaven, still sometimes used in the sense of sky, but usually in high or poetic register.
3. The verb is derived from the noun.
4. Cognates
5. The English word is cognate with Old English scēo (“cloud”), Old Saxon scio, skio, skeo (“light cloud cover”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål sky (“cloud”), Old Irish ceo (“mist, fog”), Irish ceo (“mist, fog”). It is also related to Old English scūa (“shadow, darkness”), Latin obscūrus (“dark, shadowy”), Sanskrit स्कुनाति (skunāti, “he covers”). See also hide, hose, house, hut, shoe. See: Norwegian '
sky', Sanskrit '
स्कुनाति'.
Sample Sentences
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The artists—I mean the younger brood, and not the Brother Academicians who "skied" his pictures—were the first and the most enthusiastic in his [George Fuller's] praise. [1883 December, M[ariana] G[riswold] Van Rensselaer, “George Fuller”, in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume V (New Series; volume XXVII overall), number 2, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co.; London: F[rederick] Warne & Co., →OCLC, page 227, column 1:]
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In ‘skying’ a coin for the purpose of deciding a point at issue between two parties, two methods are in vogue: there is either the ‘slow torture’ of spinning the coin thrice, the decision to go against the tosser-up, if the other party, twice out of the three times, guesses right on which side the coin shall fall; or, the ‘sudden death’ method in which one toss is decisive; […] [1894, C[ornelis] Stoffel, “Preface”, in Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students (First Series), Zutphen, Gelderland, Netherlands: W. J. Thieme & Co.; London: Luzac & Co., →OCLC, footnote 1, page IX:]
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Hernandez [i.e., Félix Hernández] walked the bases loaded, then fell behind 3–1 in the count to Bobby Abreu, who then skied the next pitch to left for a sacrifice fly. [2009 September 8, Geoff Baker, “Seattle Mariners at Los Angeles Angels: 09/08 game thread”, in The Seattle Times, Seattle, Wash.: The Seattle Times Company, published 29 November 2012, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Sep 2021:]
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He laid on the two best chances, both wasted by Pratt, who skied one and stubbed his toe on the other. [1977, Tom Stoppard, 42:41 from the start, in Professional Foul:]
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Van Persie [i.e., Robin van Persie] skied a penalty, conceded by Gary Caldwell who was sent off, and also hit the post before scoring his third with a shot at the near post. [2011 January 22, Tim Love, “Arsenal 3 – 0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2021:]
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All of a sudden he appeared as a third competitor, skied the Flying Scud with four fat bids of a thousand dollars each, and then as suddenly fled the field, remaining thenceforth (as before) a silent, interested spectator. [1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “The Wreck of the ‘Flying Scud’”, in The Wrecker, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 146:]