çekim: karşılaştırma dunkler · üstünlük am dunkelsten
eş: finster, dunkelfarben, dunkelfarbig, tief
zıt: hell, hoch
köken: From Middle High German tunkel, from Old High German tunkal, tuncal (“dark”), from Proto-Germanic *dunkalaz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʷ- (“to smoke, fume”). The modern consonantism is Central and Low German (compare Middle Low German dunker, also dunkel). Cognate to Dutch donker (“dark”).
darkness, the dark, complete absence of light; a dark place · public chaos, disorder in the world · an unknown or hidden place
köken: Compound of 暗 (kura, “dark”, combining form used in compounds, stem of adjective 暗い (kurai, “dark”)) + 闇 (yami, “darkness, absence of light; night”, noun, derived from verb 止む (yamu, “cease, halt, stop”)). First cited to around 1007.
dark (devoid of light) · under-the-counter, cash in hand (receiving money in cash with the purpose of avoiding taxes) · crazy, nuts, kooky; dim, dull (usually of a person)
çekim: karşılaştırma pimeämpi · üstünlük pimein
zıt: kirkas
köken: From Proto-Finnic *pimedä, from Proto-Uralic *piľme.
köken: From éj (“night”) + szaka (“…’s period, period of…”), literally, “(the) period of night”, from szak (“part, time of day”) + -a (possessive suffix).
köken: Formation from an earlier adjective is possible, similarly to several similar nouns in -īgō, examples at rōbīgō, with the verb deriving from the noun, as cālīgō (noun) + -ō. A possible reading in Pacuvius suggests earlier verb semantics as “I make dark”, consistent with this construction. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“dark spot”), suggested to be connected to columba (“dove, pigeon”),…
köken: From Old Norse myrkr n, from Proto-Germanic *mirkwiz, cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk mørker and Swedish mörker. Derived from the adjective Proto-Germanic *merkuz, see Danish mørk.