See also: glíða

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German gliden.

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Verb

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glida (present tense glid, past participle gleid, past participle glidd or glitt or glide, present participle glidande, imperative glid)

  1. to slip (to lose one's traction on a slippery surface)
    Han gleid på isen.
    He slipped on the ice.
  2. to glide (to move effortlessly)
    Skia glid godt.
    The skis glide well.

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Old English

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *glidā, from Proto-Germanic *glidǭ; related to glīdan (to glide)[1]

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Noun

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glida m

  1. kite (bird)
    • 10th century, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Andrew the Apostle"
      Sē þe þurh rēaflāc ġewilnaþ þā þing þe hē mid his ēagum wiþūtan sċēawaþ, sē is glida, nā culfre.
      Whoever wants to steal the things that he sees with his eyes without, he is a kite, not a dove.

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Weak:

singular plural
nominative glida glidan
accusative glidan glidan
genitive glidan glidena
dative glidan glidum

Descendants

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

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  1. ^ The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. (1923). United States: University of Illinois, p. 130

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German glīden, from Old Saxon glīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleydʰ-.

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glida (present glider, preterite gled, supine glidit, imperative glid)

  1. (intransitive) to glide, to slide under conditions of low friction (to move in continuous contact with a surface)

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Volapük

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Noun

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glida

  1. genitive singular of glid
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