brilliance, shine, lustre · fragment · Strong reaction; scandal
çekim: çoğul éclats
köken: Deverbal from éclater (“to burst”), from Middle French esclater (“to break, break violently”), from Old French esclater (“to separate from, sunder out”) (deverbal also in Old French esclat), from Frankish *slaitan (“to split, break”), from Proto-Germanic *slaitijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to cut up, split”). Akin to Old High German sleizan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to…
aile: coup d'éclat, rire aux éclats, voler en éclats
shard; piece (broken piece of ceramic or glass) · junk · wreck
çekim: çoğul cacos
köken: From Vulgar Latin *cacculus, from Latin caccabus (“pot”), see also Galician cacho (“broken container, broken piece of a container”) and Spanish cacho.
a piece of burned clay, brick, tile · a piece of baked earthenware · a sherd, potsherd
çekim: çoğul testae · tamlayan testae
köken: Unknown: * Perhaps as if tosta, from torreō (“to burn, parch”). * Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *tₔtḱ-t-, from *tetḱ- (“to create, produce”) (whence Latin texō (“to weave”)), and thus cognate with Middle Persian tšt' (tašt). This is considered unlikely by De Vaan for semantic reasons. * Borrowed from a substrate language, as words for vessels often are.