glente
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Danish
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Etymology
[edit]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”).[1]
Noun
[edit]glente c (singular definite glenten, plural indefinite glenter)
- kite (bird of prey)
Inflection
[edit]Declension of glente
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | glente | glenten | glenter | glenterne |
| genitive | glentes | glentens | glenters | glenternes |
References
[edit]- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1221”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1221
“glente” in Den Danske Ordbog
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]glente m (definite singular glenten, indefinite plural glenter, definite plural glentene)
- kite (bird of prey)
References
[edit]- “glente” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Categories:
- Danish terms inherited from Old Norse
- Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Danish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Danish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish common-gender nouns
- da:Birds of prey
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- nb:Birds