свет
Russian
noun+
Definitions
- light
- day
- radiance
- (uncountable) lights, lighting
- (uncountable) power, electricity
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic свѣтъ (society, world) inherited from Proto-Slavic *světъ (light, world) root from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweyt- (bright, shine, white).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱweyt-
Gloss
bright, shine, white
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
白
Emoji
☀️ 🌝 🌞 🌟 🌠 📸 🔦 🕯️ 😎
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- дио́д Russian
- засвечивать Russian
- засвечиваться Russian
- осветить Russian
- светать Russian
- светлый Russian
- световой Russian
- светодиод Russian
- светофор Russian
- светский Russian
- φορός Ancient Greek
- *ḱweyt- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱweytos Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱwoyt-o- Proto-Indo-European
- świat Polish
- *kvisti Proto-Slavic
- *květъ Proto-Slavic
- *světъ Proto-Slavic
- *světьlъ Proto-Slavic
- svět Czech
- světlo Czech
- svetlo Serbo-Croatian
- svijet Serbo-Croatian
- svit Serbo-Croatian
- светло Serbo-Croatian
- свијет Serbo-Croatian
- свят Bulgarian
- свет Macedonian
- світ Ukrainian
- *ćwaytás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- svet Slovak
- свет Belarusian
- сусвет Belarusian
- свѣтъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- свѣтъ Old East Slavic
- свѣтꙑчь Old East Slavic
- swět Lower Sorbian
- sviet Volapük
- swět Upper Sorbian
- sjot Polabian
- swiat Kashubian