glida

• gli
• glide

From Middle Low German gliden.

• IPA^(key): /²ɡliːɑ/

glida (present tense glid, past participle gleid, past participle glidd or glitt or glide, present participle glidande, imperative glid)

1. to slip (to lose one's traction on a slippery surface)

   Han gleid på isen.

   He slipped on the ice.

2. to glide (to move effortlessly)

   Skia glid godt.

   The skis glide well.

• “glida” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• glioda, *gleoda

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *glidā, from Proto-Germanic *glidǭ; related to glīdan (“to glide”)^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡli.dɑ/

glida m

1. kite (bird)
   • 10th century, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Andrew the Apostle"

     Sē þe þurh rēaflāc ġewilnaþ þā þing þe hē mid his ēagum wiþūtan sċēawaþ, sē is glida, nā culfre.

     Whoever wants to steal the things that he sees with his eyes without, he is a kite, not a dove.

• Middle English: glede, glide
  • English: glede, glead
  • Scots: gled, gleed

From Middle Low German glīden, from Old Saxon glīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleydʰ-.

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glida (present glider, preterite gled, supine glidit, imperative glid)

1. (intransitive) to glide, to slide under conditions of low friction (to move in continuous contact with a surface)

• glidflyga
• glidmedel

• adlig

glida

1. genitive singular of glid