glente

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glente

Etymology

From Old Danish glænte, from a verb originally meaning "glide," from Old Norse *glenta, *gletta, from Proto-Germanic *glentaną (“to slide; glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰlend- (“to shine; sparkle; look”).

Noun

glente c (singular definite glenten, plural indefinite glenter)

  1. kite (bird of prey)

Inflection

Declension of glente
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative glente glenten glenter glenterne
genitive glentes glentens glenters glenternes

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 1221, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1221

“glente” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

glente

Noun

glente m (definite singular glenten, indefinite plural glenter, definite plural glentene)

  1. kite (bird of prey)

References

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