glisser French · revision 16505

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=blend|attested=before 1191, Gui de Cambrai, Vengement Alixandre (glicier)|origins=gem-pro *glīdaną}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɡli.se/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''glisser'''^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French [[m|fro|glicier]] (before 1191), remade as ''glisser'' about 1380.^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|fro|glicier]], a blend of Old French [[m|fro|gliier|t=to slide]], [[bor|frk|*glīdan|t=to slide, glide]], with [[m|fro|glacier]], the old form of [[glacer]], which in the 12th century meant “to slip”.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(FEW|16, 44b) The Frankish verb is related to [[dum|gliden]], [[gmh|glīten]] and [[de|gleiten]], and goes back to [[gem-pro|*glīdaną]], the source of [[en|glide]].^(TLFi)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Littré took “glacier”, from [[glace]], to be the older word.^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In Gui de Cambrai's ''Vengement Alixandre'' (before 1191) ''glicier'' means to move continuously over a smooth surface or along another body.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Glisser sur la glace'' is in Palsgrave (1530).^(TLFi) Transitively it meant to push (about 1320), then to slip something in deftly or secretly (Monet, 1636) and to whisper a word (1735).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) From the 16th century it meant to move as if gliding (''glisser sur l'eau''), to pass lightly or insensibly (1580), and to slip gradually into a state.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ Figuratively, ''glisser sur'' a subject is not to dwell on it (Madame de Sévigné, 1671), and something ''glisse sur'' a person when it makes no impression (1680).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Skiers use it from 1896, and the noun [[glisse]] gave the ''sports de glisse''.^(BHVF)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Before 1191 – ''Glicier'', Gui de Cambrai.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1320 – Transitive “to push”, Watriquet de Couvin.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1380 – The form ''glisser''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 1530 – ''Glisser sur la glace'', Palsgrave.^(TLFi)

+ * 1636 – To slip in furtively, Monet.^(TLFi)

+ * 1671 – “Not to dwell on”, Madame de Sévigné.^(TLFi)

+ * 1896 – Of skiing.^(BHVF)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|slide]], [[m|en|glide]]: ''glisser sur la glace'', ''le traîneau glissait sur la neige''.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

+ # To [[m|en|slip]], skid: ''il a glissé sur une peau de banane''; to be slippery: ''attention, ça glisse''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To pass lightly or gradually: ''glisser dans le sommeil'', ''glisser sur un sujet'', not to dwell on it.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)

+ # To slip (something) in, insert discreetly: ''glisser une lettre sous la porte''; to whisper: ''glisser un mot à l'oreille''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''Se glisser'': to slip, creep in: ''se glisser dans la foule''.^(Littré 1873)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[glissade]]

+ * [[glissant]]

+ * [[glissement]]

+ * [[glisseur]]

+ * [[glissière]]

+ * [[glissoire]]

+ * [[glisse]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[glacer]]

+ * [[glace]]

+ * [[en|glide]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}