Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To give a gloss or sheen to. · To make (something) attractive by deception · To become shiny. · Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).
A surface shine or luster. · A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
Probably from a North Germanic language, compare Icelandic glossi (“spark, flame”), glossa (“to flame”); or perhaps from dialectal Dutch gloos (“a glow, flare”), related to West Frisian gloeze (“a glow”), Middle Low German glȫsen (“to smoulder, glow”), German glosen (“to smoulder”); ultimately from Proto-Germanic *glus- (“to glow, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel- (“to flourish; be green or yellow”). More at glow.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Cognate mentionglossiis · spark, flame
- Borrowed-form mentiongloosnl · a glow, flare
- Cognate mentiongloezefy · a glow
- Cognate mentionglȫsengml · to smoulder, glow
- Cognate mentionglosende · to smoulder
- Derivation mention*glus-gem-pro · to glow, shine
- Derivation mention*ǵʰel-ine-pro · to flourish; be green or yellow
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