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: Inherited from Old Spanish [Term?], probably from a Vulgar Latin *extronĭtus, from *tronĭtus, from metathesis of Latin tonitrus. Compare Portuguese estrondo. Doublet of tronido, which came from a variant with stress on the penultimate syllable (long -i-).
lightning · zipper, zip, zip fastener · express telegram
çekim: çoğul мо́лнии · tamlayan мо́лнии
eş: патент, срочная телеграмма, газета-молния
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic мълниꙗ (mŭlnija), мълнии (mŭlnii), from Proto-Slavic *mъlnьji or *mьlnьji, from earlier *mъldnьji or *mъldni, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mild-n-, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥dʰ-n- (“lightning”). Slavic cognates include Serbo-Croatian му́ња (munja), Bulgarian мъ́лния (mǎ́lnija), Polabian måuńa and Kashubian môłniô. Probable cognates outside Slavic include Latvian…
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
lightning (flash of light caused by the discharge of atmospheric electrical charge)
çekim: çoğul relâmpagos
eş: corisco, raio, relampo
köken: Alteration of relâmpado, from re- + lâmpado, from Latin lampada (“lamp”), from lampas, or through a derivative of Late Latin lampāre. The prefix re- indicates the idea of repetition, hence lightning striking over and over again. Compare Spanish relámpago.
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).
thunder (the sound caused by lightning) · lightning (discharge of atmospheric electricity)
çekim: tamlayan åskas
köken: From Early Modern Swedish variants: āska, åscka, åskja, oschia, åsikia, åsekia, åsäckia, åsökia, åsökja, asökia (compare dialectal åseka), from Old Swedish āsikkia (nominative), āsækyu (oblique). Compound of ås (“Æsir (singular), Norse god”) + ökja (“carting”), the latter, an older unstandardised variant of äcka (“carting”), initially a Proto-Norse verbal noun to åka (“to go, going”). No cognate…
köken: A verbal formation from Prakrit 𑀓𑀟𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀺𑀬 (kaḍakkiya), from Sanskrit कडत्कृत (kaḍatkṛta), of onomatopoeic origin (compare कटकटा (kaṭakaṭā, “sound of rubbing”)). Related to कड़कड़ाना (kaṛakṛānā).
lightning, a flash of lightning · thunderbolt · brightness, splendor
çekim: çoğul fulgura · tamlayan fulguris
köken: From Proto-Italic *folgos, from the same root as fulgeō (“flash, lighten”). The expected declension according to regular sound changes would be *fulgus /fulgeris. The nominative fulgus is in fact given by Festus as an alternative form. The oblique stem fulger- is attested in Lucretius ("quasi protelo stimulatur fulgere fulgur"), and also in inscriptions in the spelling of derived words such as…