gles

See also: glês

Old Saxon

Noun

gles n

1. Alternative form of glas

Swedish

Etymology

From dialectal glis, ultimately related to glas (“glass”). Originally in the sense "which lets light through".

Adjective

gles (comparative glesare, superlative glesast)

1. sparse

Declension

Inflection of gles
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	gles	glesare	glesast
Neuter singular	glest	glesare	glesast
Plural	glesa	glesare	glesast
Masculine plural3	glese	glesare	glesast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	glese	glesare	glesaste
All	glesa	glesare	glesaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

Derived terms

• glesbefolkad
• glesbygd
• gles matris

Related terms

• glesna

References

• gles in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gles in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• gles in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• legs