strong or violent force · violence · physical control or power
çekim: çoğul Gewalten · tamlayan Gewalten
köken: From Middle High German gewalt, from Old High German giwalt, from Proto-West Germanic *gawald, from Proto-Germanic *gawaldą, from *ga- + *waldą (“power, authority”). Cognate with Yiddish געוואַלד (gevald), Dutch geweld, English wald.
köken: From Middle Dutch gewelt, influenced by umlauted geweldich (modern geweldig), from Old Dutch giwalt, ultimately pertaining to Proto-West Germanic *ga- and *waldōn (“to govern, rule”). Cognate with English wald, German Gewalt.
köken: First attested in 1519. erő (“strength, force, power”) + szak (“part, piece”, the same as the stem of the verb szakad), originally “(with) part of its strength/force, (with) some of its strength/force, (by) force”.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁s Proto-Italic *wīs Latin vīs Latin violēns Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin violentia From violēns (“violent”) + -ia.
köken: From Middle Welsh treys (“abduction, rape”), related to Irish tréas (“rebellion, treason”); both are probably borrowed from Old French traison (“treason”), or its source, the verb trair (“to betray”).