glaður
Icelandic
/ˈklaːðʏr/
adj
Definitions
- happy, glad
- bright, shining (describing the sun, moon, day, fire, etc.)
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse glaðr (happy, smooth, bright) derived from Proto-Germanic *gladaz (smooth, flat, glossy, shiny, radiant, gleaming, happy).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*gladaz
Gloss
smooth, flat, glossy, shiny, radiant, gleaming, happy
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
艶
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- glad English
- gladden English
- gladful English
- gladhand English
- gladhearted English
- gladly English
- gladness English
- gladsome English
- overglad English
- unglad English
- *gʰladh- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʰladʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- glad Norwegian Bokmål
- *gladaz Proto-Germanic
- *gladjaną Proto-Germanic
- glad Norwegian Nynorsk
- glæd Old English
- glad Middle English
- glaðr Old Norse
- gleði Old Norse
- glad Danish
- glat Old High German
- glaður Faroese
- *glad Old Dutch
- glad Old Saxon
- glaþer Old Swedish