abyss, chasm · bottom of a chasm or valley · infiniteness of thought
çekim: çoğul abîmes
eş: cœur
köken: Inherited from Old French abisme, from a Late Latin *abīsmus (or similar; compare Spanish, Portuguese abismo), a formally unclear alteration of Latin abyssus (“bottomless pit”), from Ancient Greek ἄβυσσος (ábussos). Doublet of abysse.
köken: Borrowed from Late Latin *abyssimus, from Latin abyssus (“a bottomless gulf”), from Ancient Greek ἄβυσσος (ábussos, “bottomless”), ἀ- (a-, “not”) + βυσσός (bussós, “depth”). Displaced Old Galician-Portuguese avisso.
shaft (vertical or inclined passage, e.g. of a mine or an elevator) · pitch (vertical cave passage) · chasm, ravine, abyss (deep, steep-sided rift, gap or fissure)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) Proto-Indo-European *dʰewb-der. Ancient Greek βυθός (buthós) Ancient Greek ἄβῠσσος (ábŭssos)bor. Latin abyssus Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄβῠσσος (ábŭssos, “bottomless pit”).
aile: *abīsmus
Abyssus abyssum invocat.
Terra autem erat inānis et vacua, et tenebrae erant super faciem abyssī et spīritus Deī ferēbātur super aquās.
köken: From Middle Low German afgrunt, afgrunde. Compare Dutch afgrond, German Abgrund, Norwegian Nynorsk avgrunn, Swedish avgrund and Gothic 𐌰𐍆𐌲𐍂𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹𐌸𐌰 (afgrundiþa). Equivalent to af- (“off, from”) + grund (“ground”).