eve (day or night before, usually used for holidays)
çekim: çoğul aatot · tamlayan aaton
köken: Borrowed from Old Swedish apton, afton (“evening, eve”); “evening” and “eve” are the same word in Swedish because the ecclesiastical day changes at 6 p.m., but only the sense “eve” has been borrowed into Finnish.
staying awake or sitting up all night · devotional watching, vigil
çekim: çoğul pervigilia · tamlayan pervigiliī
köken: Etymology tree Latin pervigil Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin pervigilium From pervigil (“always watchful”) + -ium.
vigil (eve of a religious festival) · abstinence (from certain foods on days of penitential observance)
çekim: çoğul bigilí · tamlayan bigile
köken: From English vigil, from Middle English vigile (“a devotional watching”), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”). Doublet of feighil.
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic прагъ (pragŭ), from Proto-Slavic *porgъ (“threshold”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *parˀgas, from Proto-Indo-European *porg-o-. Compare Macedonian праг (prag), Serbo-Croatian prȁg.