Fallsucht

(Engels)

epilepsy

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈfalˌzʊχt/

Etimologie (Engels)

Verwante met Nederlands: vallende ziekte

Verwante met Sweeds: fallandesot

In summary

From fallen (“to fall”) + Sucht (here in the old sense “illness, disease”), thus the same as English falling sickness, Dutch vallende ziekte or Swedish fallandesot. Compare also Arabic صَرْع (ṣarʕ), Estonian langetõbi, Polish padaczka, Czech padoucnice, Russian паду́чая (padúčaja) Serbo-Croatian pȁdavica, all equally derived from a word for “to fall”. From the fits which cast the patients to the ground.

Sinonieme

Epilepsie

Anfallsleiden

Krampfleiden

Vertalings

epilepsie

épilepsie

epilessia

vallende ziekte

epilepsy

epilepsia

toevallen

صرع

epilèpsia

επιληψία

epilepsia

epilepsi

sara

hedr

keps