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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "himmel" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "himmel" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
My favorite source for the origin of English words.
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I was listening to the Einstürzende Neubauten track “Letztes Biest am Himmel” and was surprised by the prepostion “am”. Looking into this there are loads of examples of “am Himmel”.
So this is the standard way of saying “in the sky” ?
Sounds a bit strange to me (from my english way of thinking about things) as I have an association of “an” being “against” something, which makes it sound a bit “detached” somehow…
Yes, “am Himmel” is the standard for things you see in the sky from earth. “im Himmel” sounds like the religious version.
If you think of the heaven as a plane (which is the truth that “they” don’t want us to know, of course) on which there are things like sun, moon and stars, “am” makes perfect sense.