köken: Ca. 1800, from Italian fata Morgana, which see. The underlying fictional character of Morgan le Fay was already known in Middle High German as Feimurgān. The spelling as two unconnected nouns is somewhat unusual, but may be due to the derivation from a proper noun.
een optisch fenomeen dat het resultaat is van temperatuurinversie, een verschijnsel waarbij er grote temperatuurverschillen bestaan tussen verschillende luchtlagen
ghost, spirit (disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death) · faint or poorly visible shape or figure · shadow (imperfect and faint representation)
çekim: çoğul haamut · tamlayan haamun
köken: From Proto-Finnic *haamu. Cognates include Karelian huamu, Votic aamo, and dialectal Finnish hahmo, haamo, probably from Proto-Finno-Permic *šamɜ. Other cognates include Erzya чама (čama, “face”), Moksha шама (šama, “face”).