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: From Middle Dutch schicht, from Old Dutch *skiht, from Proto-Germanic *skihtiz, derived from *skehaną (from which geschieden). The meaning was "something that shoots forward" and is only attested in Dutch; the German near-cognate Geschichte preserves the earlier meaning "forward movement" and hence "that which proceeds/occurs".
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese faisca, feisca (attested in Medieval Latin as falisca), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *falwiskǭ (“spark, ash over burning ambers”), from Proto-Germanic *falwaz (“fallow”) from Proto-Indo-European *polʷos, or from Vulgar Latin *favillesca, from favilla (“embers”). Cognate with Galician faísca and Asturian falisca. Compare also Middle French…
spark; a small glowing particle · spark; an electric discharge
çekim: çoğul gnistor · tamlayan gnistas
köken: From Old Swedish gnista, from Old Norse gneisti, from Proto-Germanic *gahnaistô (“spark”), from *ga- + *hnaistô (“spark”), perhaps from the ultimate source of German knistern (“to crackle”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *gʰrómos Proto-Slavic *gromъ Old Polish grom Polish grom Inherited from Old Polish grom, from Proto-Slavic *gromъ.
aile: gromowładny, jak grom z jasnego nieba, od groma
köken: From Old Norse gneisti, from Proto-Germanic *gahnaistô (“spark”), from *ga- + *hnaistô (“spark”), perhaps from the ultimate source of German knistern (“to crackle”).
flash (burst of light, fire, lightning etc.) · bolt (lightning spark) · spark (particle of glowing matter; small amount of something, which has the potential to become something greater)