Light

Picture The big bang. Let there be light.
          yehi (Hebrew: to exist, light)
          genetheto phos (Greek: to come into being)
          lux sit (Latin: let light exist)
          fiat lux (Latin Vulgate Bible: let there be light)
 
leuk (Proto-Indo-European: light, brightness);
          the source of
                    Armenian lois (light), lusin (moon); Greek leukos (bright, shining, white); Latin lucere (to shine), lux (light),                       lucidus (clear); Old Church Slavonic luci (light); Lithuanian laukas (pale); Welsh llug (gleam, glimmer);                              Old  Irish loche (lightning), luchair (brightness); Hittite lukezi (is bright);
            and the source of
                      Proto-Germanic leukhtam;
                    from which comes Old Saxon lioht, Old Frisian liacht, Middle Dutch lucht, Dutch licht, Old High German                      lioht, German Licht, Gothic liuhap, Old English (Anglian) leht, Old English (West Saxon) leoht – light,                                 daylight; spiritual illumination;
                     and, at last, to the Old English word
          light as brightness, radiant energy, as that which makes things visible,
                      and, by the 15th century, light as mental illumination.
 
Let there be light
            “Look! It’s not dark!”
Let there be light
            “Aha! Now I see what you mean! I get it!”
Let there be light
            “Ahhh… Yes.” Awe.
 
Open eyes. Open mind. Open heart.
 
Light. Energy. Power. Life.
 
Reference: Online Etymological Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_there_be_light
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