Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A short flash of light, usually when reflected off a shiny surface. · A brief look; a glance.
adj
Not sharp; dull.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo flash or gleam briefly. · To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter. · To cause to flash or gleam; to reflect. · To dry; to wither.
15th century. Borrowed from Scots glint, from Middle English glenten (“to shine, gleam; flash”), probably from Old Norse *glenta, from Proto-Germanic *glantijaną, causitive of Proto-Germanic *glintaną (“to gleam, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to shine”). Cognate with Danish glente, Swedish glänta, Norwegian Nynorsk gletta (“to peep, look”), Middle High German glinzen; compare also Swedish glinta (“to slip, slide, gleam, shine”), Swedish glimt (“flash, glint, glimpse”), Norwegian Nynorsk glanta, gletta (“to glide, slip”). Reintroduced into literary English by Robert Burns.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*ǵʰley-ine-pro
- Borrowed-form mentionglintsco
- Derivation mentionglentenenm · to shine, gleam; flash
- Derivation mention*glentanon
- Derivation mention*glantijanągem-pro
- Derivation mention*glintanągem-pro · to gleam, shine
- Derivation mention*ǵʰley-ine-pro · to shine
- Cognate mentionglenteda
- Cognate mentiongläntasv
- Cognate mentionglettann · to peep, look
- Cognate mentionglinzengmh
- Cognate mentionglintasv · to slip, slide, gleam, shine
- Cognate mentionglimtsv · flash, glint, glimpse
- Cognate mentionglantann
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