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…
köken: Compound of 稲 (ina, “rice plant”, ancient bound-form reading of modern ine) + 妻 (tsuma, “wife, spouse”) or 夫 (tsuma, “husband, spouse”). The tsuma changes to zuma as an instance of rendaku (連濁). Due to the homophony in standard Japanese of づ and ず, and due to various spelling reforms, this term is often spelled in modern kana usage as いなずま. A belief in ancient times was that rice plants would…
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
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)