brilliance, shine, lustre · fragment · Strong reaction; scandal
çekim: çoğul éclats
köken: Deverbal from éclater (“to burst”), from Middle French esclater (“to break, break violently”), from Old French esclater (“to separate from, sunder out”) (deverbal also in Old French esclat), from Frankish *slaitan (“to split, break”), from Proto-Germanic *slaitijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to cut up, split”). Akin to Old High German sleizan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to…
aile: coup d'éclat, rire aux éclats, voler en éclats
köken: From Sauraseni Prakrit *𑀧𑀁𑀓𑁆𑀔 (*paṃkkha) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀟- (-ḍa-) + -𑀇𑀓𑀸- (-ikā-), from the nominative singular form of Sanskrit पक्ष्मन् (pakṣman). Doublet of पपनी (papnī) and पक्ष्म (pakṣma). Compare Gujarati પાંખડી (pā̃khḍī), Marathi पाकळी (pākḷī).
köken: From the dialectal pih (“soft eiderdown”) + -l~ly (“diminutive suffix”). Its more original form was pehel. The noun pih is of onomatopoeic origin imitating the sound of breathing out.
tuft, wisp of wool · trifle (thing of little importance)
çekim: çoğul floccī · tamlayan floccī
köken: Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlok-, related to Old High German blaha (“linen, canvas”), Old Swedish blan, bla, both from Proto-Germanic *blahǭ, *blagwǭ (“cloth, linen”), and Old Norse blæja, which is from Proto-Germanic *blahjǭ (“linen, cloth”). Alternatively, from Proto-West Germanic *flokkō (“down, wool, flock”), from Proto-Germanic *flukkô (“down, piece of wool, flake, fluff”), from…