The story
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*glāʀōn“to shine”
- Old English · inherited from*glārian
- Middle English · inherited fromgloren
- English todayglore
From Middle English gloren, (compare Middle English glaren (“to glare, stare, shine”)), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old English *glārian, from Proto-West Germanic *glāʀōn (“to shine”). Compare Scots glore (“to stare”), West Frisian gloarje, Dutch gloren, German Low German gloren (“to glimmer; flicker”), Swedish glora, Norwegian Bokmål glore, Norwegian Nynorsk glora. Related to glare.
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishgloren all →
glower
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.