happiness, joy, bliss (state or emotion) · luck, success (mostly when seen as dependant on unearned, accidental factors) · good luck, chance (positive coincidence)
çekim: tamlayan Glückes
eş: Zufallsglück, Schwein, Massel, Dusel, Fortuna, Wohl
köken: From Middle High German gelücke (12th century), at first along the Lower and Middle Rhine. Probably borrowed from Old Dutch *gilukki as part of the Flemish knight culture; compare Middle Dutch gelucke (1240), whence modern Dutch geluk. (The fact that the word is attested in High German before Dutch must be disregarded in view of the minimal attestation of Old Dutch as a whole.) Further origin…
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (b(ʾ)ht' /baxt/, “fortune, luck”) which is the past stem of Middle Persian [script needed] (b(ʾ)htn', bhš- /baxtan, baxš/, “to apportion, to distribute, to allocate”), from Proto-Iranian *bagta- (“assigned, allotted; fate”), a lexicalized past participle ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to distribute”); see there for further information.
fortune, luck · good fortune; misfortune (depending on context) · destiny, fate
çekim: çoğul fortūnae · tamlayan fortūnae
köken: From Proto-Italic *fortūnā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥-tew-n-éh₂, a substantivized feminine form of an unattested adjective *fortūnus, from the -tus-derivation *fortus to ferō (“to bear, carry”) or fors (“chance, luck”), + -nus, ultimately from *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”). For the meaning development compare with Russian везе́ние (vezénije, “luck, good luck”) related to везти́ (veztí, “to…
aile: fortūnō
Vergilius, Aeneis, Book V, line 710
Vergilius, Aeneis, Book X, lines 42-43
Quibus rebus adductus Caesar non expectandum sibi statuit dum, omnibus fortunis sociorum consumptis, in Santonos Helvetii pervenirent.
köken: From Old Danish myntæ, mintæ, from Old Norse minta, from Middle Low German minte, münte, from Old Saxon minta, from Proto-West Germanic *mintā, from Latin menta, mentha (“mint”).