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Glitter Gleam Pie Root Ghel Proto Germanic Glimmer Shine

正面 10451.gleam
英 [gliːm]美 [ɡlim]

背面
释义:
n. 微光;闪光;瞬息的一现vi. 闪烁;隐约地闪现vt. 使闪烁;使发微光
例句:
1. The product is still only a gleam in an engineer's eye.该产品还只是工程师头脑中尚未成形的想法。

1. PIE root *ghel- "shine, glitter, glow" => Proto-Germanic *glim- => gleam, glimmer, glimpse.2. glimmer is a frequentative from Proto-Germanic *glim-, originally "shine brightly," Sense shifted 15c. to "shine faintly".3. PIE root *ghel- "shine, glitter, glow" => glow, glitter, glister, glisten, glint, glad.gleam微光,闪光。glimmer微光。
gleam 发微光,闪烁来自PIE*ghel, 照耀,发光,词源同glass, glimmer.
gleamgleam: [OE] Gleam is one of a very wide range of English words beginning with gl that denote ‘shining’ (others include glare, glint, glister, glitter, and glow). Originally it was a noun, which came from Germanic *glaim-, *glim- (source also of glimmer [15]); the verb is a 13thcentury development.=> glimmer, glimpsegleam (n.)Old English glæm "a brilliant light; brightness; splendor, radiance, beauty," from Proto-Germanic *glaimiz (cognates: Old Saxon glimo "brightness;" Middle High German glim "spark," gleime "glow-worm;" German glimmen "to glimmer, glow;" Old Norse glja "to shine, glitter, glisten"), from root *glim-, from PIE *ghel- (2) "to shine," with derivatives referring to bright materials and gold (see glass (n.), and compare glad (adj.)).gleam (v.)early 13c., from gleam (n). Related: Gleamed; gleaming."

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