spot.
spotlight; light from a spotlight directed at something one wants to illuminate
Meaning & usage
spotlight; light from a spotlight directed at something one wants to illuminate
En spot lyste opp scenen.
short advertisement, commercial, or promotional segment on television, radio, podcasts, etc.
Kampanjen besto av korte spotter på radio.
relating to a market price, rate, etc. that follows day-to-day market fluctuations
spotpris
spotkurs
exact, completely correct, right on target
Den kommentaren var spot on.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from English spot (“spot, mark; spotlight; short commercial”), from Middle English spot (“spot, mark”) and spotte (“spot, mark”), partly from Middle Dutch spotte (“spot, speck”), and partly merged with Middle English splot (“spot, blot”), from Old English splott (“spot, blot, patch of land”), from Proto-West Germanic *splott (“spot, blot”), from Proto-Germanic *spluttaz (“segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *splt-nós (“split-off piece, segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to split”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk spot, Danish spot, Swedish spot, German Spot and Dutch spot (“spotlight; short advertisement”).
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