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glede

Meaningglowing coal

Common meaning: a live ember

Journey through time

  1. Old Englishglēd‘glowing coal’sourceB&T
  2. Middle Englishglede‘glowing coal’source
  3. Englishmeaning shiftsglowing coal → a live emberglede‘a live ember’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Old English glēd ‘glowing coal’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry GLEDE, p. 236 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • glēd Old English “glowing coal”

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