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.
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…
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.