glat

See also: glät and GLAT

Danish

Adjective

glat (neuter glat, plural and definite singular attributive glatte)

1. slippery

   Pas på, her er glat.

2. smooth

   Hans hage var glat.

3. (calculus) differentiable everywhere

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German (*)glad, northern variant of glat, from Proto-Germanic *gladaz. The modern final -t is irregularly generalised from the uninflected stem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlaːt/
  • Rhymes: -aːt

Adjective

glat (masculine glaten, neuter glat, comparative méi glat, superlative am glaatsten)

1. smooth

   Den Hond hat e schéine, glate Pelz.

   The dog had a beautiful, smooth coat.

2. slippery (e.g. because of ice or water)

   Hien ass op dem glate Buedem ausgerëtscht.

   He slipped on the slippery floor.

Declension

declension of glat

number and gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		hien ass glat	si ass glat	et ass glat	si si(nn) glat
nominative / accusative	attributive and/or after determiner	glaten	glat	glat	glat
	independent without determiner			glates	glater
dative	after any declined word	glaten	glater	glaten	glaten
	as first declined word	glatem		glatem

Adverb

glat

1. smoothly
2. completely, downright

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *glad, from Proto-Germanic *gladaz.

Adjective

glat

1. bright

Descendants

• Middle High German: glat
  • German: glatt
    • → Danish: glat
    • → Swedish: glatt
    • → Norwegian: glatt
    • → Esperanto: glata
      • Ido: glata
  • Luxembourgish: glat
  • Vilamovian: głōt
  • Yiddish: גלאַט (glat)
    • → English: glatt