köken: From Middle High German blitze (“lightning”), from Old High German blëcchazzen; compare English bleak and bleach. Synchronically analyzed as a nominal formation from blitzen (“to flash”), see there for more. Cognates See also Old Saxon bliksmo (“lightning”), Old English blæcern (“candlestick”), Dutch bliksem, Ancient Greek φλέγω (phlégō, “to burn, blaze”), Sanskrit भ्राज (bhrāja, “to radiate,…
köken: Inherited from Middle French beau, from Old French biau, bel, from Latin bellus.
aile: a beau mentir qui vient de loin, à belles dents, à la belle étoile, après la pluie, le beau temps, au beau fixe, au beau milieu de, avoir beau, avoir beau jeu, avoir de beaux jours devant soi, beau comme le jour
to flash with lightning · to flash with lightning (of the sky) · to flash like lightning
çekim: geçmiş balenàto · ortaç balenàto · şimdiki baléna · ulaç balenànte
eş: lampeggiare, brillare, sfolgorare, (di un pensiero etc., venire improvvisamente alla mente), scaturire
köken: Uncertain. Perhaps from balena (“whale”), due to a popular habit of indicating atmospherical phenomena using the names of sea monsters + -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).
aile: baleno
In corrispondenza del torrione occidentale si apriva un enorme forno per il pane che già balenava di fiamme rossastre.
lightning, a lightning bolt (a single discharge of lightning) · a flash (burst of light) · a flash (device which can produce a short burst of light, e.g. for photography)
çekim: çoğul blixtar · tamlayan blixts
köken: Deverbal from blixta, which is itself from blixa. More under entry blixtra. Cognate of German Blitz and Dutch bliksem.
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gъd + *-jь + *-kъ. Among the Slavic languages, present only in Czech. However, from the same root and with close meaning is Russian приго́жий (prigóžij).
çekim: karşılaştırma pulchrior · üstünlük pulcherrimus
köken: Uncertain. The earlier form polcer is traditionally derived from Proto-Italic *porkros, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥ḱ-ró-s or Proto-Indo-European *perḱ-ro-, from the root *perḱ- (“motley, variegated”), with dissimilation of the first *-r- into *-l-. De Vaan has questioned this change, thinking that the second *r should have disappeared instead, and thus leaves this term without an etymology.…