welkin

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɛlkɪn/    美 /ˈwɛlkən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible; the firmament.
    — He leaues the vvelkin vvay moſt beaten playne, / And rapt with vvhirling vvheeles, inflames the ſkyen, / With fire not made to burne, but fayrely for to ſhyne.
  2. The upper atmosphere occupied by clouds, flying birds, etc.
    — [W]ho you are, and vvhat you vvould are out of my vvelkin, I might ſay Element, but the word is ouer-vvorne.
  3. The place above the Earth where God or other deities live; heaven.
    — [T]his villanous Poetry vvill vndoe you, by the VVelkin.

词形变化

welkins plural

词汇关系

衍生词
make the welkin ring ring the welkins
相关词
ethereal

词源

Inherited from Middle English welkne (“weather; heavens; (earlier) cloud”), from Old English wolcnu (“sky, heavens”), plural form of wolcn (“cloud”), from Proto-West Germanic *wolkn (“cloud”), from Proto-Germanic *wulkną (“cloud”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥ɡ-no-m, from *welg- (“damp; wet”). Cognate with Dutch wolk (“cloud”), German Wolke (“cloud”).
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