köken: From Middle High German gespenst, gespenste, from Old High German gispensti (“temptation, (devilish) illusion”), from spanan (“to lure, to attract”), with ghosts interpreted as "illusions that lure one away"; see the related spannen (“to stretch, span”) for further etymology.
aile: gespenstlich, Nachtgespenst
Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa – das Gespenst des Kommunismus.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰ́ζω (phăntắzō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma)bor. Latin phantasma Old French fantosme French fantôme Inherited from Old French fantosme, from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma); alternatively, according to…
a small humanoid creature who invades homes at night to carry out mischief and scare the residents · goblin, leprechaun, gnome, pixie, elf, imp, brownie, gremlin, hobgoblin · charisma (the power to attract through personal magnetism and charm)
çekim: çoğul duendes
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish duen de casa (“master of the house”). Compare Sicilian donni di casa. See more at dueño.
νυχτερινός εφιάλτης που, κατά τη λαϊκή παράδοση, οφείλεται σε μια δαιμονική οντότητα η οποία κάθεται πάνω στο στήθος του κοιμώμενου και δυσκολεύει την αναπνοή του
köken: Uncertain; possibly from a reduction of agheasmă (“holy water”) (cf. the variant aiasmă), in that it was believed to ward off apparitions, and is thus used euphemistically; compare the expressions cruce-n casă or bată-l crucea, which refer to the Devil. Other proposed etymologies are less likely, such as Slavic jazva ("wound"), old German ethma ("spirit").
köken: Inherited from Malay hantu, from Proto-Malayic *hantu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qanitu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaNiCu. * False cognate of English haunt (typically misunderstood in sense of rumah hantu (“haunted house”) or in verb sense menghantui (“to haunt”))
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.