glede

noun /ɡliːd/

1. A live coal; an ember.

   His last throes splintered it to sparks and gledes.

   1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit [Chapter 14 - Fire and Water],

Where it comes from

From Middle English gleede, glede, from Old English glēd, glēde (“glowing coal, ember, fire, flame, instrument of torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *glōdi, from Proto-Germanic *glōdiz (“incandescence, glowing ember, burning ash”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to shine”). Cognate with Scots gleed (“burning coal, ember”), Saterland Frisian Gloud (“blaze, fire”), Dutch gloed (“glowing heat”), German Glut (“glowing heat, embers”), Swedish glöd (“embers”), Scots glude (“glow from a fire”). More at glow.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry glede (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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