glede

English

Alternative forms

• gled

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡliːd/

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• Rhymes: -iːd

Etymology 1

From Middle English glede, from Old English glida, from Proto-West Germanic *glidā, from Proto-Germanic *glidǭ; akin to Icelandic gleða, Swedish glada. Compare glide.

Noun

glede (plural gledes)

1. Any of several birds of prey, especially a kite, Milvus milvus.

Translations

Milvus milvus

• Bulgarian: червена каня f (červena kanja)

Etymology 2

From Middle English gleede, glede, from Old English glēd, glēde (“glowing coal, ember, fire, flame, instrument of torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *glōdi, from Proto-Germanic *glōdiz (“incandescence, glowing ember, burning ash”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to shine”). Cognate with Scots gleed (“burning coal, ember”), Saterland Frisian Gloud (“blaze, fire”), Dutch gloed (“glowing heat”), German Glut (“glowing heat, embers”), Swedish glöd (“embers”), Scots glude (“glow from a fire”). More at glow.

Alternative forms

• glead, gleed

Noun

glede (plural gledes)

1. A live coal; an ember.
   • 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit [Chapter 14 - Fire and Water],

     His last throes splintered it to sparks and gledes.

   • 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring [Book 2, Chapter 2 - The Council of Elrond],

     It was hot when I first took it, hot as a glede, and my hand was scorched, so that I doubt if ever again I shall be free of the pain of it.

Anagrams

• degel, edgel, gleed, ledge, leged

Dutch

Verb

glede

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of glijden

Anagrams

• gelde, gleed, legde

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English glida, from Proto-West Germanic *glidā, from Proto-Germanic *glidǭ; related to gliden. Forms with /ɛ/ are possibly either from an Old English variant *gleoda or due to the influence of Old Norse gleða.

Alternative forms

• glide

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡleːd(ə)/, /ˈɡlid(ə)/, /ˈɡlɛd(ə)/

Noun

glede (plural gledes)

1. kite (bird of prey)

   Synonym: kyte

Descendants

• English: glede, glead
• Scots: gled

References

• “glēde, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English glēd, from Proto-West Germanic *glōdi, from Proto-Germanic *glōdiz; the final vowel is generalised from the Old English oblique cases.

Alternative forms

• gleede

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡleːd(ə)/

Noun

glede (plural gledes or gleden)

1. A live coal; an ember
   • c. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Troilus and Criseyde”, in B.A. Windeatt, editor, Troilus and Criseyde: "The Book of Troilus" by Geoffrey Chaucer, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), published 2016, page 462:

     "But of the fir and flaumbe funeral / In which my body brennen shal to glede,

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (by extension) A fire; flames.
3. (figuratively, rare) A strong feeling.

Descendants

• English: glede, glead, gleed
• Scots: gleed, gleid

References

• “glēde, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse gleði.

Noun

glede f or m (definite singular gleda or gleden, indefinite plural gleder, definite plural gledene)

1. happiness, joy, delight, gladness, pleasure

Verb

glede (present tense gleder, past tense gleda or gledet or gledde, past participle gleda or gledet or gledd)

1. to make happy
2. (reflexive) to enjoy
3. (reflexive) to look forward to

References

• “glede” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse gleði.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ɡleː(d)ə/

Noun

glede f (definite singular gleda, indefinite plural gleder, definite plural gledene)

1. happiness, joy, delight, gladness, pleasure

Related terms

• gle
• gledeleg

References

• “glede” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlêde/
• Hyphenation: gle‧de

Adverb

glȅde (Cyrillic spelling гле̏де)

1. as regards, concerning [+genitive]