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,…
thunderclap (sudden, loud thunder caused by a nearby lightning strike) · bolt from the blue, thunderclap, thunderbolt (event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected)
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-).
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: First attested in the Bullyu dugongbu si eonhae (分類杜工部詩諺解 / 분류두공부시언해), 1481, as Middle Korean 벼〮락〮 (Yale: pyélák). Nativisation of the Sino-Korean term 벽력 (霹靂, byeongnyeok).
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).