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- glimmer
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[glimmer 词源字典] - glimmer: see gleam
[glimmer etymology, glimmer origin, 英语词源] - glimmer (v.)
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- 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.)
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- 1580s, "a faint, wavering light," from glimmer (v.).