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 the verb ýyldyramak (“to sparkle, shine”), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yaltïr- (“to flash; blazed”). Cognate with Azerbaijani ildırım (“lightning, thunder”), Turkish yıldırım (“thunderbolt, lightning”), etc.
köken: From Middle Dutch blexeme, from Old Dutch blikisni (“lightning bolts”), ultimately from a Proto-Germanic derivation of Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-.
aile: als de bliksem, blauwe bliksem, bliksemafleider, bliksemen, bliksemflits, blikseminslag, bliksemlicht, bliksemoorlog, bliksempijl, bliksemschicht
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…
lightning; thunderbolt · offline meeting; a real-life meetup between people who met online; IRL meeting
köken: First attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean 번〮게〮 (Yale: pénkéy). Equivalent to the root 번 (beon, “*bright”) + suffix —게 (-ge, “the thing which”). Related to 번득 (beondeuk, “with a flash”), 번쩍 (beonjjeok).
lightning, a lightning bolt (a single discharge of lightning) · a flash (burst of light) · a flash (device which can produce a short burst of light, e.g. for photography)
çekim: çoğul blixtar · tamlayan blixts
köken: Deverbal from blixta, which is itself from blixa. More under entry blixtra. Cognate of German Blitz and Dutch bliksem.