gler

From Old Norse gler, from Proto-Germanic *glasą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel- (“to shine, glimmer, glow”).

• IPA^(key): /klɛːr/
• Rhymes: -ɛːr

gler n (genitive singular glers, nominative plural gler)

1. glass (substance made by melting sand)
2. (geology, physics) glass (amorphous solid material)
3. a glass bottle
4. pane of glass
5. lens
6. a flat, slippery surface covering made of ice (e.g. a frozen pond surface or frozen surface water on a road)

   Synonym: svell

7. (in the plural) pieces, shards of glass

• glas

From Proto-Germanic *glazą, cognate with Old English glær.

gler n

1. glass
2. looking-glass

• Icelandic: gler
• Faroese: gler
• Old Swedish: glar
• Old Danish: gler, glar, glaar
  • Danish: glar
    • Norwegian Bokmål: glar

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “gler”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive