Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗adj
Pleased; happy; gratified. · Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo make glad.
From Middle English glad, gled, from Old English glæd (“shining; bright; cheerful; glad”), from Proto-Germanic *gladaz (“shiny; gleaming; radiant; happy; glossy; smooth; flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰladʰ-, from *ǵʰelh₂- (“to shine”). Cognate with Scots gled, glaid (“shining; bright; glad”), Saterland Frisian glääd (“smooth; sleek”), West Frisian glêd (“smooth”), Dutch glad (“smooth; sleek; slippery”), German glatt (“smooth; sleek; slippery”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish glad (“glad; happy; cheerful”), Icelandic glaður (“glad; joyful; cheery”), Latin glaber (“smooth; hairless; bald”), Russian гла́дкий (gládkij, “smooth”). Doublet of glatt.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*ǵʰelh₂-ine-pro
- Derivation mentiongladenm
- Derivation mentionglædang
- Derivation mention*gladazgem-pro
- Derivation mention*gʰladʰ-ine-pro
- Cognate mentiongledsco
- Cognate mentiongläädstq
- Cognate mentionglêdfy
- Cognate mentiongladnl
- Cognate mentionglattde
- Cognate mentiongladsv
- Cognate mentionglaðuris
- Cognate mentionglaberla
- Cognate mentionгла́дкийru
- Doublet mentionglatten
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