Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly. · To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish. · To cause to glide. · To pass with a glide, as the voice.
The act of gliding. · A transitional sound, especially a semivowel. · An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact. · A bird, the glede or kite.
From Middle English gliden, from Old English glīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰleydʰ-. Cognate with West Frisian glide, glydzje, Low German glieden, Dutch glijden, German gleiten, Norwegian Nynorsk gli, Danish glide, Swedish glida, Finnish liitää.
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionglidenenm
- Inherited-form mentionglīdanang
- Inherited-form mention*glīdangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*glīdanągem-pro
- Derivation mention*gʰleydʰ-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionglidefy
- Cognate mentiongliedennds
- Cognate mentionglijdennl
- Cognate mentiongleitende
- Cognate mentionglinn
- Cognate mentionglideda
- Cognate mentionglidasv
- Cognate mentionliitääfi
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