köken: Inherited from Old Spanish luziérnega, from Latin lucerna (“lamp”) + the dialectal suffix -aga, from Paleo-Hispanic. The positioning of stress in the antepenultimate syllable is also due to pre-Roman influence.
köken: According to Raphael Bluteau’s 1712–1728 Vocabulario Portuguez e Latino, coined in 1696 during a meeting in the 4th count of Ericeira’s bookstore, as an alternative to the vulgar caga-lume. While Bluteau reports the coinage was inspired by Latin lampyris, from Ancient Greek λαμπυρίς (lampurís), modern dictionaries instead derive the word as a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πυριλαμπής…
firefly · glowworm · a power behind the scene; specifically the United States or its secret services
çekim: çoğul licuricilor · tamlayan licuriciului
köken: Probably from licuri, a variant of licări (“to gleam, shimmer, shine, sparkle”), itself of uncertain origin: possibly from lucoare or from a Vulgar Latin root liculire, or tied to lucere.
köken: Reduplication of đóm. Compare bươm bướm (“butterfly”) < bướm, nhền nhện (“spider”) < nhện. Unlike the mentioned cases, the root *đóm is not in use as a free morpheme.