glanz

See also: Glanz

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *glant, from Proto-Germanic *glantaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlond-o-, ultimately from the root *gʰlend-.

Adjective

glanz

1. bright

Descendants

• Middle High German: glanz (“bright; brightness”)
  • → Danish: glans
  • German: Glanz
    • → Danish: glans
    • → Dutch: glans
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: glans
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: glans
    • → Polish: glans, → glanc
    • → Swedish: glans
  • → Swedish: glans

References

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “glintan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 181