Welkin

Date "welkin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Welkin \Wel"kin\, noun. [from Old English expression welken, welkene, welkne, wolcne, weolcne, Anglo-Saxon wolcen, plural wolcnu, cloud; akin to Dutch wolk, OFries. wolken, Old Saxon wolkan, German wolke, Old High German. wolchan, and probably to German welk withered, Old High German. welc moist, Russ. OSlav. vlaga moisture, Lith. vilgyti to moisten.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: Welkin

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Air	Open air; sky, welkin; blue sky; cloud .
World	Heavens, sky, welkin, empyrean; starry cope, starry heaven, starry host; firmament; Midgard; supersensible regions; varuna; vault of heaven, canopy of heaven; celestial spaces.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Commercial Usage: Welkin

Domain	Title
Books	The Welkin Weasels #3: Windjammer Run (reference) Welkin (reference) Welkin Weasels (reference) Welkin Weasels #1: Thunder Oak (reference) Welkin Weasels #2: Castle Storm (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression: Welkin

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Welkin

Modern Translations: Welkin

Language		Translations for "welkin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		qiell (blue, empyrean, firmament, heaven, sky). (various references)

Bulgarian		небосвод (heaven, heavens), небеса (heavens). (various references)

German		Himmelsgewölbe (firmament, heavens, vault of heaven, welkins). (various references)

Greek		ουρανόσ (heaven, sky). (various references)

Hungarian		égszínkék (azure, cerulean, sky blue, turquoise). (various references)

Manx		speyr (climate, sky). (various references)

Pig Latin		elkinway

Portuguese		firmamento (azure, cope of heaven, domed, firmament, heaven, sky, sphere), céu (above, air, azure, blue, empyrean, firmless, heaven, paradise, roof, sky, sphere), abóbada celeste (canopy, sky). (various references)

Russian		небо (heaven, palate, sky, the roof of the mouth). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nebeski svod (cope: the cope of heaven, firmament, heaven). (various references)

Turkish		sema (firmament, heaven, sky), gökyüzü (air, azure, canopy of heaven, ether, heaven, skies, sky, sphere, vault of heaven), gök kubbe (canopy of heaven, firmament, the blue vault, vault of heaven). (various references)

Vietnamese		vòm trời. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Welkin

Derivations
	Words beginning with "welkin": welkins. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Welkin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Belkin, Felkin, Nelkin, Selkin, walken, walkion, welin, welken, weskin, Wilken, wlkin, Wolin, wolken. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Rhyming with "Welkin"

Anagrams: Welkin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: winkle.
	Words within the letters "e-i-k-l-n-w"
	-1 letter: inkle, liken.
	-2 letters: kiln, kine, knew, lien, like, line, link, lwei, wile, wine, wink.
	-3 letters: elk, ilk, ink, ken, kin, lei, lek, lie, lin, new, nil, wen, win.
	-4 letters: el, en, in, li, ne, we.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-k-l-n-w"
	+1 letter: inkwell, twinkle, welkins, winkled, winkles, wrinkle.
	+2 letters: dawnlike, fawnlike, inkwells, snowlike, swanlike, twinkled, twinkler, twinkles, weakling, winglike, wrinkled, wrinkles.
	+3 letters: twinklers, unwarlike, weaklings, womanlike, wrinklier.
	+4 letters: candlewick, periwinkle, weakliness, winterkill, wrinkliest.
	+5 letters: antiwrinkle, cakewalking, candlewicks, lawbreaking, nightwalker, periwinkles, racewalking, rainbowlike, trickledown, winterkills, workmanlike.
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