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

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]