glimmeryoudaoicibaDictYouDict[glimmer 词源字典]
glimmer: see gleam
[glimmer etymology, glimmer origin, 英语词源]
glimmer (v.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
late 14c., "to shine brightly;" early 15c., "to shine dimly," perhaps from or related to Middle Dutch glimmen, Middle Low German glimmern, from an extended (frequentative?) form of Proto-Germanic *glim-, root of Old English glæm "brightness" (see gleam (n.)). Sense shifted 15c. to "shine faintly." Compare Dutch glimmeren, German glimmeren "to shine dimly." Related: Glimmered; glimmering.
glimmer (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1580s, "a faint, wavering light," from glimmer (v.).