# glede
## English
### Alternative forms

* gled

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡliːd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* 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)
* Any of several birds of prey, especially a kite, Milvus milvus.

##### Translations
### 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)
* 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
* (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: /ˈɡleːd(ə)/, /ˈɡlid(ə)/, /ˈɡlɛd(ə)/

#### Noun

glede (plural gledes)
* kite (bird of prey)
    Synonym: kyte

##### Descendants

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

##### 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: /ˈɡleːd(ə)/

#### Noun

glede (plural gledes or gleden)
* 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)
* (by extension) A fire; flames.
* (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)
* happiness, joy, delight, gladness, pleasure

### Verb

glede (present tense gleder, past tense gleda or gledet or gledde, past participle gleda or gledet or gledd)
* to make happy
* (reflexive) to enjoy
* (reflexive) to look forward to

### References

* “glede” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse gleði.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²ɡleː(d)ə/

### Noun

glede f (definite singular gleda, indefinite plural gleder, definite plural gledene)
* happiness, joy, delight, gladness, pleasure

#### Related terms

* gle
* gledeleg

### References

* “glede” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡleː.de/

### Noun

glēde
* inflection of glēd:
** nominative plural
** accusative singular/plural
** genitive/dative singular

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡlêde/
* Hyphenation: gle‧de

### Adverb

glȅde (Cyrillic spelling гле̏де)
* as regards, concerning [with genitive]