glis

See also: Glis

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵl̥h₂-í-s (sister-in-law), related to Sanskrit गिरि (girí, sister-in-law), Ancient Greek γαλέη (galéē, weasel).[1]

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

glīs m (genitive glīris); third declension

  1. dormouse
Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

singular plural
nominative glīs glīrēs
genitive glīris glīrium
dative glīrī glīribus
accusative glīrem glīrēs
glīrīs
ablative glīre glīribus
vocative glīs glīrēs
Derived terms
Descendants

(Most via the late variant glīrus)

  • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Corsican: ghjira
    • Italian: ghiro
    • Sicilian: agghiru
    • Venetan: gliro, giro
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: glîr
    • Ladin: ghiro
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: ghir
    • Lombard: ghil, glera
    • Piedmontese: gil
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: gllir
    • Old French: loir, leir, lère
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: llira
    • Galician: lirio
    • Old Spanish: lir
  • Vulgar Latin: *glīrōnem
    • Gallo-Romance:
      • French: liron (dialectal)
    • Ibero-Romance:
      • Asturian: llirón
      • Leonese: tsirón, leirón, lleirón, llirón, llorigón
      • Mirandese: lheiron
      • Old Galician-Portuguese:
      • Spanish: lirón
  • Borrowings:

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *gley- (to stick; to spread, to smear).[2] See also Latin glūten and glutus.

Pronunciation

Noun

glis f (genitive glitis); third declension

  1. (mineralogy) A tenacious kind of earth
Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative glis glitēs
genitive glitis glitum
dative glitī glitibus
accusative glitem glitēs
ablative glite glitibus
vocative glis glitēs

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “glīs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), “glei-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 362-363

Further reading

  • glis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "glis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • glis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the verb glise.[1][2]

Noun

glis n (definite singular gliset, indefinite plural glis, definite plural glisa or glisene)

  1. a grin
  2. a sneer

Usage notes

  • In 2020, masculine inflection (glisen) was made obsolete.[3]

References

  1. ^ “glis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  2. ^ “glis” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
  3. ^ Language Council of Norway, Spelling decisions since 2012 (retrieved 12.21.20)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb glise.[1]

Noun

glis n (definite singular gliset, indefinite plural glis, definite plural glisa)

  1. a grin
  2. a sneer

Usage notes

  • In 2020, masculine forms (glisen, glisar, glisane) were made obsolete.[2]

Noun

glis m (definite singular glisen, indefinite plural glisar, definite plural glisane)

  1. a person who always has a grin

References

  1. ^ “glis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  2. ^ Language Council of Norway, Spelling decisions since 2012 (retrieved 12.21.20)