What is the difference between lightning and thunder? The confusion about the name lasted for years, here’s what exactly is
British, 48, was hit by Lightning last year in Split’s Kashjuni, and her case is not the only one in the Split-Dalmatia County. In Podstrana in 2018, the lightning strike also killed the citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina (26).
However, if it kills lightning or thunder, he explained Slavko Vujevic. Lightning expert, reports Vecernji List.
It confirms that over the years, the confusion about the expression for emptying the atmospheric electric charge has occurred, which is today expertly called lightning. He recalls that in the Croatian language, during the former state, the word lightning disappeared by combining the word thunder. Lightning is in English Lightning and Grom Thunder. He adds that the people are said to be a noise to hear something « tandrch » and this is something that explains the sound phenomenon, not emptying the atmospheric electric charge.
– In the five -lingual dictionary of Faust Vrančić, printed in Venice in 1595. The Croatian word lightning states for the phenomenon, and only in 1752 Benjamin Franklin experimentally determined that Mighting was an electric charge. So, in the Croatian language, the word lightning used to empty the atmospheric electric charge was used, and what we call the thunder today was called Trisk, while the thunderstorm was a trittle, says Vujevic.
