gled

gled

1. simple past of gli
2. simple past of glide

• glei

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 (“glow, blaze”), German Glut (“ember”), Scots glude (“glow from a fire”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡleːd/

glēd f

1. burning or live coal, gleed, ember, fire, flame, spark

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

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “gléd”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From Early Scots gled, gledd, from Old Norse gleða. Cognate with Old English glida, English glede.

gled (plural gleds)

1. The red kite (Milvus milvus)
2. A hawk, harrier, or other bird of prey
3. A greedy person
4. A predator or plunderer

From Early Scots glaid, glad, from Old English glæd (“bright; clear”) and Old Norse glaðr (“smooth; happy”).

gled (comparative mair gled, superlative maist gled)

1. glad
2. Of the sky: clear, cloudless
3. smooth, easy in motion, without much friction

• gledly
• gledness
• gledsome

• Rhymes: -eːd

gled

1. past tense of glida.