glede

English edit

Alternative forms edit

gled

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ɡliːd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -iːd

Etymology 1 edit

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 edit

glede (plural gledes)

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

Translations edit

Milvus milvus

Bulgarian: червена каня f (červena kanja)

Etymology 2 edit

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 edit

glead, gleed

Noun edit

glede (plural gledes)

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 edit

degel, edgel, gleed, ledge, leged

Dutch edit

Verb edit

glede

(dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of glijden

Anagrams edit

gelde, gleed, legde

Middle English edit

Etymology 1 edit

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 edit

glide

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

glede (plural gledes)

kite (bird of prey)
Synonym: kyte

Descendants edit

English: glede, glead
Scots: gled

References edit

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

Etymology 2 edit

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 edit

gleede

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈɡleːd(ə)/

Noun edit

glede (plural gledes or gleden)

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