glenchen
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Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]- Old French glacier, glachier, glaichier (“to slide; to slip”) (whence also Middle English glacen (“of a blow: to strike obliquely, glance; to glide”)),[2] from glace (“frozen water, ice”) (from Vulgar Latin *glacia, from Latin glaciēs (“ice”), of uncertain origin, + -ier (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs); and
- Old French guenchir, ganchir (“to avoid; to change direction; to elude, evade”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *wankijan (“to move aside; to stagger, sway; to wave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weng- (“to bend”).
Verb
[edit]glenchen
- (intransitive) (of a weapon) to glance, graze (not deliver the full effect of a blow)
- (intransitive) to dart, move quickly
Descendants
[edit]- English: glance
References
[edit]- ^ “glance, v.1”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2023; “glance1, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ “glācen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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