Re: "Glede"
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 4, 2001, 19:44 |
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Raymond Brown wrote:
> _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_)
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> These words are all, surely, cognate with "glow"?
I wouldn't call them cognate... more like phonesthemes, of which there
is I found to my surprise a whole dictionary on the web:
<http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html>
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