The story
- Old English · inherited from*glǣd
- Middle English · inherited fromglade
- English todayglade
From Middle English glade, glode, glede (“a gleam of light, bright space, an open space; an open or cleared space in a forest; a bright patch of sky; a bright surface of snow or ice”), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old English *glǣd, *glād, related to Old English glæd (“shining, bright”), (compare Old Norse glaðr (“bright”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.