Re: "Glede"

From: "Raymond Brown" <ray.brown@...>
>>> _Glede_, it's normally spelt, I think. I thought it
>>> meant 'a burning coal'.
>>
>>Indeed.  Isildur (the guy who cut the One Ring from the Dark Lord's hand)
>>says that when he got it it was "hot as a glede".  I never knew what
>>a glede was until now.
>
>_glede_ or _gleed_ (both spellings are found) - is a (Brit) English dialect
>word meaning "a hot coal" or "burning ember" << O.E. gle:d (cf. Dutch
>_gloed_, German _Glut_, Swedish _glöd_)
...Glödsson?

>These words are all, surely, cognate with "glow"?
'Gleed' presumably from Germanic *glô-di-z and 'glow' from *glô-.

Watkins puts them from *g'hel- "to shine; with deriv. ref. to colors, bright
materials, gold, and bile or gall", whence also 'yellow', 'gold', 'gall',
Gk. 'xlwros', 'xolh' (> chlorophyll, cholera), and roundaboutly other words
like "zloty" and "arsenic".

Apparently <gl-> became a Germanic phonestheme.

    *Muke!