glede

• gled

• IPA^(key): /ɡliːd/

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• Rhymes: -iːd

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.

glede (plural gledes)

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

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.

• glead, gleed

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.

• degel, edgel, gleed, ledge, leged

glede

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

• gelde, gleed, legde

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.

• glide

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

glede (plural gledes)

1. kite (bird of prey)

   Synonym: kyte

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

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

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.

• gleede

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡleːd(ə)/

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.

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

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

From Old Norse gleði.

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

1. happiness, joy, delight, gladness, pleasure

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

• “glede” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse gleði.

• IPA^(key): /²ɡleː(d)ə/

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

1. happiness, joy, delight, gladness, pleasure

• gle
• gledeleg

• “glede” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡleː.de/

glēde

1. inflection of glēd:
   1. nominative plural
   2. accusative singular/plural
   3. genitive/dative singular

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

glȅde (Cyrillic spelling гле̏де)

1. as regards, concerning [with genitive]