witch (sorceress) · witch (term of abuse for a woman)
çekim: çoğul heksen
eş: toverheks, toverkol
köken: From Middle Dutch hexe (15th c.), borrowed from Late Middle High German hecse. Displaced native Middle Dutch hagetisse. Both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā.
köken: Either an altered reading from older manyo, possibly to distinguish the senses, or a reanalysis of the term, using the more common reading of jo for the 女 kanji. First attested with this reading in 1910.
köken: Uncertain. Possibly from Iberian/Celtiberian *bruxtia (compare Occitan bruèissa, Portuguese bruxa, Spanish bruja), from Proto-Celtic *brixtā (“spell, magic”) (compare Old Irish bricht (“charm”), Old Breton brith (“magic”)). It could instead be akin to a different Celtic word such as Old Irish Brigit (literally “high, exalted”).
aile: all de bruixa, bruixa sense taques, bruixeria, bruixot, embruixar, palaia bruixa