NEBULA

This word mostly means a "cloud" but in Slavic and Celtic languages it means the "sky" or "heaven" (a place where the clouds are, up above in the sky).

Lithuanian "debesis" is very similar to Slovak "nebesia" or Polish "nebiosa" with replaced letter N = "debesia" and "debiosa".

Celtic form "nef" could come from an earlier "nep" like Hittite "ne-e-pí-iš". Following the Grimm's law there is an Old High German "nebul" and modern Dutch "nevel", in which B and P transformed into V or F.

NAB-

Sanskrit: नभस् (nábhas) ("mist, clouds, vapour, the sky or atmosphere, ether as an element")

Avestan: naba

NAP-

Palaic: napis

NEB-

Old Church Slavonic:небо ⱀⰵⰱⱁ (nebo)

Rusyn: не́бо (nébo)

Ukrainian: не́бо (nébo)

Russian: не́бо (nébo)

Macedonian: не́бо (nébo)

Serbo-Croatian: не̏бо, nȅbo

Slovene: nebọ̑

Kashubian: niebò

Polish: niebo, niebiosa

Slovak: nebo, nebesá/nebesia

Lower Sorbian: njebjo

Upper Sorbian: njebjo

Czech: nebe

Bulgarian: небе́ (nebé)

Molise Croatian: neba

Belarusian: не́ба (njéba)

Polabian: nebü

Old Saxon: nebal

Old High German: nebul, nibul, nepol, nebel

Middle High German: nebel

German: Nebel

Latin: nebula

English: nebula

Galician: néboa, nebra

Italian: nebbia, nebula

Kabuverdianu: nébua

Occitan: nèbla

Papiamentu: neblina

Romansh: nebla, neabla

Spanish: niebla, neblina

Venetian: nebia

Sardinian: nébida

Old French: neble

NEP-

Hittite: 𒉈𒂊𒁉𒅖 (ne-e-pí-iš, nepis)

Ancient Greek: νέφος (néphos)

NEF-

Middle Breton: neff

Middle Welsh: nef

Welsh: nef

Old Cornish: nef

Cornish: nev

NEV-

Middle Low German: nēvel

Low German: neavel

Middle Dutch: nevel

Dutch: nevel

Afrikaans: newel

TAP- TAB-

Lycian: 𐊗𐊀𐊂𐊀𐊛𐊀𐊈𐊀 (tabahaza)

Luwian: 𒋫𒀊𒉺𒀸𒊭 (ta-ap-pa-aš-ša, tap-pa-aš-ša; tappassa)

DEB-

Latvian: debess

Lithuanian: debesis

NEM-

Old Breton: nem

Old Welsh: nem

Old Irish: nem

Kurdish: nem ("moisture")

NAM-

‌Middle Persian: nm (nam) ("moisture")

Persian: نم‎ (nam) ("moisture")

Armenian: նամ (nam)

NEAM-

Irish: neamh

Scottish Gaelic: nèamh

NIOB-

Belarusian: нёба (njóba)

Russian: нёбо (njóbo)

NEG-

Aromanian: negurã

Romanian: negură

Albanian: njegull

Sicilian: negghia

NEN-

Breton: neñv

NIF- NIV-

Old English: nifol

Luxembourgish: Niwwel

NIB-

Venetian: nibia

NIR-

Kamviri: niru

NEV-

Old Frisian: neval

Portuguese: nevoeiro, névoa

NEUL-

Catalan: neula

Sardinian: neula

Sicilian: nèula

NIUL-

Old French: niule

NIAU-

Manx: niau

AMP-

Old Armenian: ամպ (amp), ամբ (amb)

Armenian: ամպ (amp)

Article created on the 13th of September 2019.