Etymograph

English

skybound

From sky + bound or sky + -bound.

A compound of sky + bound

Proto-Germanic *skiwô ‘cloud cover, haze’

Proto-Germanic *skiwją ‘cloud; sky’

Old Norse ský ‘cloud; (plural) sky’

Middle English sky ‘sky; cloud’

English sky

Today it means

adj confined to the sky

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “skybound”. 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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