Etymograph

English

Spooklight

From spook + light.

A compound of spook + light

Middle Dutch spooc ‘spook, ghost’

Dutch spook ‘ghost’

English spook

Proto-Indo-European *lewk- ‘to shine’

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Proto-Germanic *leuhtą

Proto-West Germanic *leuht ‘light’

Old English lēoht

Middle English light ‘light, illumination’

English light

Today it means

name A mysterious ball or balls of light appearing in a small area known locally as the "Devil's Promenade" on the border between southwestern Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma west of the small town of Hornet, Missouri.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Spooklight