will o' the wisp (strange light)
çekim: çoğul Irrlichter · tamlayan Irrlichtes
eş: Irrwisch, Sumpflicht
köken: irren + Licht
aile: irrlichtern
atmospheric ghost light · will-o'-the-wisp
çekim: çoğul feux follets
eş: porte-brandon
köken: From feu (“fire”) + follet (“sprite”).
will o' the wisp
çekim: çoğul fuegos fatuos
eş: luz de muerto, candelilla
köken: Calque of Latin ignis fatuus.
will o' the wisp
çekim: çoğul fuochi fatui
köken: Calque of Latin ignis fatuus.
will o' the wisp
çekim: çoğul dwaallichten
köken: Compound of dwalen (“to wander, to roam”) + licht (“light”).
term used to designate the will o' the wisp phenomenon and, from this deriving, some mythical entities
eş: baitatá, batatá, batatão, biatatá, bitatá
köken: Ultimately from Old Tupi mba'etatá (“will o' the wisp”, literally “fire thing”). Because of the similarity, the etymology would be later reanalyzed as mboîtatá (literally “fire snake”), thus giving origin to the modern myth in Brazilian folklore of a fire serpent.
will o' the wisp (strange light)
köken: Borrowed from English will o' the wisp.
will o' the wisp
köken: 도깨비 (dokkaebi, “goblin”) + 불 (bul, “fire”).
a will o' the wisp (erratically moving light)
çekim: çoğul irrblossen · tamlayan irrblossets
köken: irra + bloss
will o' the wisp (strange light)
çekim: çoğul błędne ogniki · tamlayan błędnego ognika
köken: Literally, “errant light”.
A will o' the wisp that burns over a hidden treasure.
çekim: çoğul aarnitulet · tamlayan aarnitulen
köken: aarni + tuli
will o' the wisp (strange light that attracts travellers from the paths into dangerous marshes or graveyards)
çekim: çoğul bludičky · tamlayan bludičky
köken: From blud + -čka.
incubus, nightmare (an evil spirit)
çekim: çoğul lidércek
köken: Of unknown origin.
aile: lidérces, lidércfény, lidércnyomás
will o' the wisp
köken: ma (“ghost”) + trơi (fossilized element). The latter element is attested as Northern Middle Vietnamese blơi in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651). Ferlus (2007) reconstructed Proto-Vietic *p-ləːlʔ (“ghost”) (whence Toum plʌːl³), but this is unlikely to be the source due tonal mismatch.