thunderclap (sudden, loud thunder caused by a nearby lightning strike) · bolt from the blue, thunderclap, thunderbolt (event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected)
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese faisca, feisca (attested in Medieval Latin as falisca), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *falwiskǭ (“spark, ash over burning ambers”), from Proto-Germanic *falwaz (“fallow”) from Proto-Indo-European *polʷos, or from Vulgar Latin *favillesca, from favilla (“embers”). Cognate with Galician faísca and Asturian falisca. Compare also Middle French…
köken: Compound of 稲 (ina, “rice plant”, ancient bound-form reading of modern ine) + 妻 (tsuma, “wife, spouse”) or 夫 (tsuma, “husband, spouse”). The tsuma changes to zuma as an instance of rendaku (連濁). Due to the homophony in standard Japanese of づ and ず, and due to various spelling reforms, this term is often spelled in modern kana usage as いなずま. A belief in ancient times was that rice plants would…
köken: First attested in the Bullyu dugongbu si eonhae (分類杜工部詩諺解 / 분류두공부시언해), 1481, as Middle Korean 벼〮락〮 (Yale: pyélák). Nativisation of the Sino-Korean term 벽력 (霹靂, byeongnyeok).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *gʰrómos Proto-Slavic *gromъ Old Polish grom Polish grom Inherited from Old Polish grom, from Proto-Slavic *gromъ.
aile: gromowładny, jak grom z jasnego nieba, od groma
flash (burst of light, fire, lightning etc.) · bolt (lightning spark) · spark (particle of glowing matter; small amount of something, which has the potential to become something greater)