Etymology

glazen

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Today it means: Made or consisting of glass. Full definition →

Middle English glasen ← Old English glæsen ← Proto-West Germanic *glasīn
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*glasīn
  2. Old English · inherited fromglæsen“made of glass; glassy”
  3. Middle English · inherited fromglasen
  4. English todayglazen

From Middle English glasen, glesen, from Old English glæsen (“made of glass; glassy”), from Proto-West Germanic *glasīn. Equivalent to glass + -en. Doublet of glassen.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishglæsen all →

glassen

Proto-West Germanic*glasīn all →

glassen

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.