glenchen

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === glauncen, glansen === Etymology === A blend of: Old French glacier, glachier, glaichier (“to slide; to slip”) (whence also Middle English glacen (“of a blow: to strike obliquely, glance; to glide”)), from glace (“frozen water, ice”) (from Vulgar Latin *glacia, from Latin glaciēs (“ice”), of uncertain origin, + -ier (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs); and Old French guenchir, ganchir (“to avoid; to change direction; to elude, evade”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *wankijan (“to move aside; to stagger, sway; to wave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weng- (“to bend”). === Verb === glenchen (intransitive) (of a weapon) to glance, graze (not deliver the full effect of a blow) (intransitive) to dart, move quickly ==== Derived terms ==== glaunsyng ==== Descendants ==== English: glance === References === “glenchen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.