The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*gʰleydʰ-
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*glīdaną
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*glīdan
- Old English · inherited fromglīdan
- Middle English · inherited fromgliden
- English todayglide
From Middle English gliden, from Old English glīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰleydʰ-. Cognate with West Frisian glide, glydzje, Low German glieden, Dutch glijden, German gleiten, Norwegian Nynorsk gli, Danish glide, Swedish glida, Finnish liitää.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.