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,…
köken: From Proto-Turkic *ok (“arrow”). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (oq, “arrow”); Kazakh оқ (oq), Kyrgyz ок (ok), Southern Altai ок (ok), Uzbek oʻq, Uyghur ئوق (oq), Azerbaijani ox, Turkish and Turkmen ok, etc.
bolt (threaded metal cylinder) · haunch, leg of an animal as food · fart
çekim: çoğul bouten
eş: schroef, vijs
köken: From Middle Dutch bout, from Old Dutch *bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz. Cognates Cognate with German Bolzen, West Frisian bout, English bolt, Danish bolt, Icelandic bolti.
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: Compound of 稲 (ina, “rice plant”, ancient bound-form reading of modern ine) + 妻 (tsuma, “wife, spouse”) or 夫 (tsuma, “husband, spouse”). The tsuma changes to zuma as an instance of rendaku (連濁). Due to the homophony in standard Japanese of づ and ず, and due to various spelling reforms, this term is often spelled in modern kana usage as いなずま. A belief in ancient times was that rice plants would…
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 화살〮 (Yale: hwàsál). Equivalent to 활 (hwal, “bow”) + 살 (sal, “arrow”).