glim

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ǵʰley-“to gleam, shimmer, glow”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*glimō
3. Old Norse · derived from*glim
4. Old English · inherited fromgleomu“splendor”
5. Middle English · inherited fromglim
6. English todayglim

From Middle English glim, glimme (“radiance; shining brightness”), of uncertain further origin. Perhaps from Old English gleomu (“splendor”) and/or Old Norse *glim, *glima, both apparently from Proto-Germanic *glimō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk glim, dialectal Old Swedish glim, glimma.

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