Old English · noun

gled

Normalised glēd

Part of speech: noun, feminine
Declension: strong i-stem
IPA: /ɡleːd/
Syllables: ɡleːd (1 syllable)
Modern English: gleed burning glead glede live ember coal spark

Meaning

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

Iċ eom līġbysiġ, lāce mid winde, bewunden mid wuldre, wedre ġesomnad, fūs forðweġes, fȳre ġemelted, bearu blōwende, byrnende glēd.

I am busy with fire, sway with wind, wrapped with worship, gathered in good weather, ready to go forward, melted by fire, a blooming grove, a burning ember.
10th century, Exeter Book Riddle 30:

Declension

Declension of gled
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	glēd	glēde glēda
Accusative	glēd glēde	glēde glēda
Genitive	glēde	glēda
Dative	glēde	glēdum

Etymology

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”).

Descendants

glead, glede, gleed

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