gletser

From Dutch gletsjer (likely from the form gletser), from German Gletscher (“glacier”), from Alemannic German Gletscher (“glacier”), from French glacier (“glacier”), from Latin glaciārium (“ice plain, glacier”), derived from Latin glacies (“ice”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈχlɛtsər/

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gletser (plural gletsers)

1. glacier

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣlɛt.sər/
• Hyphenation: glet‧ser

gletser m (plural gletsers)

1. Dated spelling of gletsjer.
   • 1682, Simon de Vries, Curieuse aenmerckingen der bysonderste Oost en West-Indische Verwonderens-waerdige Dingen; Nevens die van CHINA, AFRICA en andere Gewesten des Werelds, vol. 4, publ. by Johannes Ribbius, page 1241.

     Enckelijck hebbenſe haere Wooningh op de hooghſte Bergen, by den Gletſer en Firn (dit zijn Namen der geduerigh met Sneeuw bedeckte Geberghten); en worden derhalven oock genoemd Sneeuw-hoenderen.

     They exclusively have their residence on the highest mountains, at the glacier and firn (these are names of the mountain areas that are lastingly covered with snow); and are therefore also called snow grouses [i.e. ptarmigans].

From Dutch gletser (current spelling gletsjer), from German Gletscher (“glacier”), from Alemannic German Gletscher (“glacier”), from French glacier (“glacier”), from Latin glaciārium (“ice plain, glacier”), derived from Latin glacies (“ice”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɛtsər/
• Rhymes: -sər, -ər, -r
• Hyphenation: glèt‧sêr

glètsêr (first-person possessive gletserku, second-person possessive gletsermu, third-person possessive gletsernya)

1. (geology) glacier

• glasier (Standard Malay)

• “gletser” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.