Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/himinaz

Etymology
Unclear, but possibly descending from with heavy remodelling, including apparent metathesis similar to 🇨🇬. The difference in meaning seems to be bridged by 🇨🇬, meaning among other things 'meteorite'. Kroonen suggests 'heavenly vault' as the original meaning. Compare also Iranian cognates such as 🇨🇬.

Kroonen proposes descent primarily from the genitive, yielding first in Germanic a paradigm with nominative , genitive , dative , later levelled further to give two parallel stems and.

Noun

 * 1) cloud cover
 * 2) sky