Gleis

• Geleise (Switzerland, Austria)

The contemporary form is shortened from Geleise, from Middle High German geleis (“track”), cognate with Middle High German leise, from Old High German leisa, from Proto-Germanic *laisǭ (“track, trail”), from Proto-Indo-European *leys-eh₂-, from *leys- (“to trace, track”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ɡlaɪ̯s/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯s

Gleis n (strong, genitive Gleises, plural Gleise)

1. railway (track on which trains run)
   • 2020 August 26, Dieter Fockenbrock, “Sorge um Corona-Infektionen: Bahnindustrie setzt auf neue Technologien”, in Handelsblatt:

     Das soll unter anderem 20 Prozent mehr Kapazitäten etwa durch dichtere Zugfolgen auf dem Netz schaffen, ohne einen Kilometer neues Gleis bauen zu müssen.

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2. (individual) track

• In German and Swiss train stations, trains are announced as leaving from a numbered track, not a platform. Platforms (Bahnsteige) give access to one or two tracks, and are usually not numbered themselves.

• Bahnsteig
• Eisenbahn
• Schiene

• “Gleis” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Gleis” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Gleis” in Duden online
• Gleis on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Gleis f (plural Gleisen)

1. railway (track on which trains run), track
2. (uncountable) (slang) milk