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English word glass comes from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel-, Old English (ca. 450-1100) *glasian, and later Proto-Germanic *glasą (Glass.)

*ǵʰel- (Proto-Indo-European)

to shine  , to shimmer, gleam, gold

*glasian (Old English)

*glasą (Proto-Germanic)

Glass.

glæs (Old English)

Glass.

glas (Middle English)

Glass (substance).

glass (English)

(archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.. (transitive) To enclose with glass.. (transitive) To furnish with glass; to glaze.. (transitive, UK, colloquial) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.. (video games) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.. To [...]

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