köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic измъжденъ (izmŭždenŭ), past passive participle of измъждити (izmŭžditi). Related to мозжи́ть (mozžítʹ, “to ache dully but persistently”), мо́зглый (mózglyj, “dank; frail”), dialectal мо́згнуть (mózgnutʹ, “to spoil, to perish”), мзга (mzga, “wet weather”).
pale (light in color) · livid, pallid, bleak · fictional, mendacious
çekim: karşılaştırma blekare · üstünlük blekast
köken: From Old Norse bleikr, from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz. Cognate with English bleak, Dutch bleek, Low German blek, German bleich, Danish bleg, Norwegian Bokmål bleik, blek, Norwegian Nynorsk bleik, Faroese bleikur, Icelandic bleikur.
white (bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light) · white (grey, as from old age, having silvery hair, hoary) · pale, white (having a color lighter than others)
çekim: karşılaştırma bielszy · üstünlük najbielszy
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Slavic *bě̃lъ Old Polish biały Polish biały Inherited from Old Polish biały.
faint (barely perceptible; not bright, or loud, or sharp) · pale (light in color) · faint (barely perceptibly small, languid, weak, gentle)
çekim: karşılaştırma halványabb · üstünlük leghalványabb
zıt: élénk, erőteljes, harsány
köken: First attested in 1485. From hal (“to die”) + -vány (noun-forming suffix). The original meaning was a noun, “backwater, swamp formed in a dead water”. The adjective senses developed via attributive usage.
pale (with lighter, whiter color on the face or skin than normal; without redness; also, implicitly, unhealthy) · pale, light (not having brightness, not having bright colors) · pale, dim, dull, faint (without brightness)
çekim: karşılaştırma bālāks · üstünlük visbālākais
köken: Originally a parallel form to an older adjective *bals (which disappeared probably because of homophony with balss “voice,” but left related terms like the verbs balot, balēt “to bleach, to fade,” balināt “to whiten, to blanch”), from the same source as the adjective balts (“white”) (q.v.). Note that the long/short parallel forms apparently reflect an older state of affairs: alongside…