noun
Skye
skeye
noun
1
A Skye terrier.
"In fact, few drop-eared Skyes are being exhibited and none of the present top winners has them."
— John T. Marvin (1976)
Word Forms
Skyes plural
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Etymology
Derived from Scottish Gaelic An t-Eilean Sgitheanach, of long disputed (probably non-Indo-European substrate) origin, with several theories proposed and none widely accepted; see Etymology of Skye.