köken: Inherited from Middle French cauchemare, from Old French cauquemare. By surface analysis, cauque + mar. Compare Walloon tchôcmwår. * First element from Old French cauche, from the verb chauchier (“to press”), from Latin calcare (“to trample, tread on”), from calx (“heel”), of uncertain origin. * Second element from Frankish *marā (“evil spirit”), from Proto-West Germanic *marā, from…
köken: Via Ancient Greek ἐφιάλτης (ephiáltēs) (compare Ἐφιάλτης (Ephiáltēs)) from Ancient Greek ἐπιάλλω (epiállō), Attic Greek ἐφιάλλω (ephiállō, “send to, throw upon”).
köken: painaa (“to press”) + -jainen – originally, painajainen was a demon that sat on a sleeping person's chest, pressing it down and thus causing bad dreams. Compare Karelian painajaini.
köken: Borrowed from French cauchemar, from Middle French cauchemare, from Old French cauquemare. First element from Latin calcō (“to trample, tread on”); second element from Middle Dutch mare (“phantom, spirit, nightmare”), from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”). See cauchemar.
nightmare · nightmare (bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience) · incubus (a feeling of oppression during sleep)
çekim: çoğul մղձավանջներ
köken: A modern literary formation from the supposed root մուղձ- (mułj-) of մղձկեմ (młjkem, “to stifle, choke”). The ending -անջ (-anǰ) is of uncertain meaning and origin. Some authors spell the word as մղձալանջ (mġjalanǰ), as if from լանջք (lanǰkʻ, “breast”), because the incubus lies upon one's breast to stifle them during the sleep.