çekim: geçmiş craint · ortaç craint · şimdiki craint · ulaç craignant
eş: avoir peur, redouter
köken: Inherited from Middle French, from Old French criembre, criendre (later creindre), from Classical Latin tremere, from Proto-Indo-European *trem- (“to tremble”). Altered into a regional Gallo-Romance Vulgar Latin form *cremere, with the initial c- under the influence of the Celtic root *krit- (Breton kridien, Scottish Gaelic crith), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krey-. Compare the similar…
aile: chat échaudé craint l'eau froide, ne craindre ni Dieu ni diable
terrifying, fearsome, frightening, scary (causing fear or anxiety) · terrifying, terrible (of a formidable nature; intense; extreme in degree or extent)
çekim: karşılaştırma τρομακτικότερος · üstünlük τρομακτικότερος
eş: τρομερός
köken: Learnedly from τρομάζω (tromázo) + -τικός (-tikós).
frightening, scary, terrifying · frightened, scared, afraid · creepy for its mysterious ability
köken: Semantic shift from Classical Japanese 強(こは)し (kofashi, “stiff, strong, tough”), modern 強(こわ)い (kowai). A folk etymology from the Ehon Hyaku Monogatari derives it from 狐(こ)者(わ)異(い) (kowai, literally “ghost of a glutton”).
köken: Probably from Ancient Greek φρίκη (phríkē) or more likely Byzantine Greek φρίκη (phríkē), but the presence of the word in Istro-Romanian indicates it was a very old borrowing. Compare Albanian frikë, also Aromanian fricã.
köken: Of unknown origin. Klingenschmitt connects the word to Old Irish moth m (“astonishment”), which is semantically attractive; however, he does not explain the phonetic mechanisms by which the two words could be related.
aile: metuō, in metū sum, meticulōsus, metum concipiō, metum habeō
çekim: geçmiş adhfhuathaithe · ortaç adhfhuathaithe · şimdiki adhfhuathaíonn sé
köken: From Old Irish adúathaigid (“dreads, abhors”, verb), from adúath, adḟúath (“great dread, horror; monster”), from ad- + úath (“fear, horror, terror; a horrible or terrible thing”).