frightening, scary, terrifying · frightened, scared, afraid · creepy for its mysterious ability
köken: Semantic shift from Classical Japanese 強(こは)し (kofashi, “stiff, strong, tough”), modern 強(こわ)い (kowai). A folk etymology from the Ehon Hyaku Monogatari derives it from 狐(こ)者(わ)異(い) (kowai, literally “ghost of a glutton”).
köken: 파리 (pari, root not used in isolation, probably related to Middle Korean 파〮라 (phálà, “blue; green”)) + -하다 (-hada, “to do”, light verb deriving adjectives). Some dialects have 패룹다 (paerupda), equivalent to 파리 (pari) + -롭다 (-ropda, “-like”, adjective-deriving suffix).
pale (light in color) · livid, pallid, bleak · fictional, mendacious
çekim: karşılaştırma blekare · üstünlük blekast
köken: From Old Norse bleikr, from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz. Cognate with English bleak, Dutch bleek, Low German blek, German bleich, Danish bleg, Norwegian Bokmål bleik, blek, Norwegian Nynorsk bleik, Faroese bleikur, Icelandic bleikur.
white (bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light) · white (grey, as from old age, having silvery hair, hoary) · pale, white (having a color lighter than others)
çekim: karşılaştırma bielszy · üstünlük najbielszy
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Slavic *bě̃lъ Old Polish biały Polish biały Inherited from Old Polish biały.
afraid, scared (in the mental state typical of fear)
köken: Originally a reduced form of *bailu, a u-stem parallel form to the archaic singular form baile of bailes “fear” (cf. Lithuanian bailùs (“afraid”)).
viņam ir bail no suņiem
zēnam kļūst bail
bail, ka nesaaukstējas
Etimoloji
Etymology tree Latin palleō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin pallidus From palleō + -idus.