çekim: karşılaştırma hirtelenebb · üstünlük leghirtelenebb
köken: From hír (“news”) + -telen (“-less, without”, privative adjective-forming suffix), referring to the fact that events may happen without prior notice or news.
köken: A merger of two unrelated adjectives: * Old Norse *brantr (east), brattr (west), from Proto-Germanic *brantaz, cognate with Norwegian bratt, Swedish brant, English brant. * Old Norse bráðr (“hasty, sudden”), from Proto-Germanic *brēþaz (“hot, in a hurry, rushed”), cognate with Norwegian brå, Swedish bråd. In early modern Danish, the latter meaning also had the form brad, with the neuter bradt.
sudden, abrupt (that which arrives, happens unexpectedly, unforeseeably)
çekim: karşılaştırma pēkšņāks · üstünlük vispēkšņākais
köken: From the (historically older) adverbial form pēkšņi (“suddenly”), from an earlier variant *pēši (probably via *pēkši, *pēški), from an adjective *pēšs (“sudden”), from earlier *pēs-šas, from Proto-Baltic *pēs-tyos, from Proto-Indo-European *pēd-tyos, a form of *pēd-tis (“going on foot”), from the stem *pēd- (“foot”). The semantic evolution was: “(going) on foot” > “quickly, immediately” (by…
From Middle High German gǣhe, gāch, gā (“quick”), from Old High German gāhi (“sudden, quick, rash”), from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwuz (“sudden”). The modern onset j- is from a Central German dialect. Other dialects have brought forward forms such as gäh, gäch or gach (obsolete in standard usage), compare Bavarian gach. Cognate with Dutch gauw (“soon”). More at gay.