köken: Inherited from Old French legier, from Vulgar Latin *leviārius, from *levius + -ārius, the former element representing an alteration of Latin levis (“lightweight”). Compare Catalan lleuger, Occitan leugièr.
aile: à la légère, aller d’un pied léger, avoir la cuisse légère, avoir la main légère, chevau-léger, être légère de la cuisse, femme légère, hyperléger, léger comme une plume, léger de main
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish fuego, from Late Latin focus (“fire”), from Latin focus (“hearth”). The form huego, which began to be used around 1500, was mostly replaced by the form starting with -f-. Compare Portuguese fogo. Cognate with English fuel. Compare also English focus. Doublet of foco, which is a borrowing from Latin.
aile: a fuego lento, a fuego manso, a prueba de fuego, a sangre y fuego, abrir fuego, agarrar fuego el cañal, agua de fuego, alto el fuego, añadir leña al fuego, apagafuegos
köken: From Middle Dutch licht, from Old Dutch *līht, from Proto-West Germanic *lį̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *linhtaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ-.
fire (chemical reaction producing a flame) · fire (destructive occurrence of fire in a certain place) · house, family
çekim: çoğul fogos
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fogo, from Latin focus. Cognate with Galician fogo, Spanish fuego, Catalan foc, Occitan fuòc, French feu, Italian fuoco and Romanian foc. Doublet of foco.
aile: a fogo lento, abrir fogo, botar fogo na canjica, brincar com fogo, cuspir fogo, de fogo morto, entre dois fogos, entre o fogo e a frigideira, fogaça, fogão
1607, Luís Vaz de Camões, Rimas, Amor é fogo que arde sem se ver
A criança aprendeu a não colocar a mão no fogo da maneira mais difícil.
köken: First attested in the Hunminjeong'eum eonhae (訓民正音諺解本 / 훈민정음언해본), 1446, as Middle Korean 가ᄇᆡ〮얍다〮 (Yale: kàpóyyàptá). Also attested in the Beonyeok sohak (飜譯小學 / 번역소학), 1517, as Middle Korean 가븨얍다 (Yale: kapuyyapta).
light; of low weight · light, lean, low-fat; containing only small amounts of fat · light; containing only small amounts of alcohol; containing less alcohol than customary; e.g. lättöl, lättvin
çekim: karşılaştırma lättare · üstünlük lättast
zıt: tung, stark, svår
köken: From Old Swedish lǣtter, from Old Norse léttr, from Proto-Germanic *linhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ-.
lättmjölk
lättkorv
I Sverige definieras lättvin som vin, som innehåller mindre än 15 volymprocent alkohol.
window (opening for light and air) · sash (the opening part of a window) · window (period of time that acts as a limited opportunity)
çekim: çoğul ikkunat · tamlayan ikkunan
köken: A variant of earlier and now dialectal akkuna (see it for more). First attested in 1644. The initial vowel, also found in Ingrian ikkuna, Karelian ikkuna, Ludian ikkun and Veps ikun, may be due to influence from Russian ико́на (ikóna) (possibly even earlier Old East Slavic икона (ikona, “icon”)). The computing sense is a semantic loan from English window.
window (opening on a building or vehicle, usually covered by one or more panes of glass) · teller window, ticket window (windowed part of a counter where transactions are made in a bank, post office, etc.) · program window (rectangular area on a computer screen displaying the output of a program)
çekim: çoğul ablakok
köken: Probably borrowed from Slovak oblok (“arc”).
light, not heavy · easy to digest · quick, swift, fleet, nimble, rapid
çekim: karşılaştırma levior · üstünlük levissimus
zıt: gravis, lentus
köken: From Proto-Italic *leɣʷis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁léngʰus, from *h₁lengʷʰ- (“lightweight”). The original PIE u-stem adjective was remade into a Latin i-stem, perhaps due to contamination from brevis (“short”), though De Vaan suggests that such a development is typical for Latin regardless Influence from brevis may also explain the lack of a nasal in the Latin term, though De Vaan provides a…