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,…
thunderclap (sudden, loud thunder caused by a nearby lightning strike) · bolt from the blue, thunderclap, thunderbolt (event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected)
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: First attested in the Bullyu dugongbu si eonhae (分類杜工部詩諺解 / 분류두공부시언해), 1481, as Middle Korean 벼〮락〮 (Yale: pyélák). Nativisation of the Sino-Korean term 벽력 (霹靂, byeongnyeok).
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)