glanz

See also: Glanz

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *glant, from Proto-Germanic *glantaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlond-o-, ultimately from the root *gʰlend-.

Adjective

glanz

bright

Descendants

Middle High German: glanz (“bright; brightness”)
- → Danish: glans
- German: Glanz
  - → Danish: glans
  - → Dutch: glans
  - → Norwegian Bokmål: glans
  - → Norwegian Nynorsk: glans
  - → Polish: glans, → glanc
  - → Swedish: glans
- → Swedish: glans

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013) “glintan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 181

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