Etymograph

English

skyborne

From sky + borne.

A compound of sky + borne

Proto-Germanic *skiwô ‘cloud cover, haze’

Proto-Germanic *skiwją ‘cloud; sky’

Old Norse ský ‘cloud; (plural) sky’

Middle English sky ‘sky; cloud’

English sky

Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- ‘to bear, carry’

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Proto-West Germanic *beran ‘to carry, to bear’

Old English beran ‘to carry, bear’

Old English boren

Middle English boren

English borne

Today it means

adj Airborne; flying.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “skyborne”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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