Blitz
German (Berlin)
/blɪts/
noun
Definitions
- (weather) lightning
- (optical) flash
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German blitze (lightning) inherited from Old High German blëcchazzen derived from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (pale, shining, white) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (shine, strike).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰleyǵ-
Gloss
shine, strike
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Blitzen English
- blitz English
- blitzer English
- blitzkrieg English
- fulgurite English
- fulgurous English
- *fulger Latin
- *fulgus Latin
- fligo Latin
- fulgur Latin
- fulguro Latin
- -en German
- Blitzeis German
- Blitzkrieg German
- Blitzlampe German
- Blitzmeldung German
- Blitzsieg German
- Dings German
- Eis German
- Krieg German
- Kugel German
- Kugelblitz German
- Lampe German
- Meldung German
- Sieg German
- blitzartig German
- blitzdingsen German
- blitzgescheit German
- gescheit German
- blank Dutch, Flemish
- bliksem Dutch, Flemish
- bliksemafleider Dutch, Flemish
- bliksemen Dutch, Flemish
- bliksemflits Dutch, Flemish
- blikseminslag Dutch, Flemish
- bliksemoorlog Dutch, Flemish
- bliksemschicht Dutch, Flemish
- bliksemsnel Dutch, Flemish
- bliksemstraal Dutch, Flemish
- blits Dutch, Flemish
- blitskikker Dutch, Flemish
- blitzkrieg Dutch, Flemish
- bolbliksem Dutch, Flemish
- blanc French
- блиц Russian
- блицкриг Russian
- πυρίφλεκτος Ancient Greek
- φλέγμα Ancient Greek
- φλέγω Ancient Greek
- *bhleg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleyǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- blits Norwegian Bokmål
- blitskrig Norwegian Bokmål
- *blaikaz Proto-Germanic
- *blankaz Proto-Germanic
- *blankijaną Proto-Germanic
- *blīkaną Proto-Germanic
- blits Norwegian Nynorsk
- blitskrig Norwegian Nynorsk
- blac Old English
- blacian Old English
- blǣċ Old English
- bleikr Old Norse
- blitz Danish
- blanc Old French
- foudre Old French
- fouldre Old French
- blic Serbo-Croatian
- blickrig Serbo-Croatian
- fulger Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- blexeme Middle Dutch
- bleih Old High German
- blëcchazzen Old High German
- bliksem Afrikaans
- blits Afrikaans
- blitze Middle High German
- בליץ Yiddish
- בליצבריוו Yiddish
- בליצפּאָסט Yiddish
- בליצשלעסל Yiddish
- *blaik gmw-pro
- *blēk Old Dutch
- blikisni Old Dutch
- *laikka Proto-Finnic
- blank Middle Low German
- *folgos Proto-Italic
- блискъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- folc Friulian
- bladje Walloon
- blaih lng