different between glaive vs guandao

English

Etymology

From Middle English glaive (“weapon with a long shaft ending in a point or blade; lance, spear; lance used as a winning post in a race, sometimes also given to the winner as a prize”), from Old French glaive (“lance; sword”). The further etymology is uncertain; one possibility is that the Old French word is from Latin gladius (“sword”), while another is that it derives from Proto-Celtic *kladiwos (“sword”), with both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh?- (“to beat; to break”). The Oxford English Dictionary notes that neither of these words had the oldest meaning of Old French glaive (“lance”). The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch glavie, glaye (“lance”); Middle High German glavîe, glævîn (“lance”), Swedish glaven (“lance”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: gl?v, IPA^(key): /?le?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v

Noun

glaive (plural glaives)

1. (obsolete, historical) A light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head.
2. (historical) A weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade fixed on the end, the edge of which is on the outside curve.
3. (loosely or poetic, archaic) A sword, particularly a broadsword.

Derived terms

• glaived (adjective)
• Welsh glaive

Related terms

• gladius

Translations

Notes

References

Further reading

• glaive on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Veglia, vagile

French

Etymology

From Old French glaive, from Latin gladius (“sword”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?v/

Noun

glaive m (plural glaives)

1. gladius, short sword
2. (figuratively) sword

Further reading

• “glaive” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Alternative forms

• gladies (10th century)
• gleve
• gleyve

Etymology

Probably from an original *glede (from Latin gladius) with influence from Gaulish gladebo (“sword”). Both terms are ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kladiwos (“sword”). Alternatively, the d in *glede that had come to be pronounced as /ð/ in Old French may have been fronted to /v/ (perhaps with the additional influence of the aforementioned Gaulish term.)

Noun

glaive m (oblique plural glaives, nominative singular glaives, nominative plural glaive)

1. sword

Descendants

• ? English: glaive
• French: glaive

See also

• espee
• lance

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (glaive)
• glaive on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Alternative forms

• guan dao

Etymology

From Mandarin ?? (gu?nd?o, “Guan Yu's halberd”)

Noun

guandao (plural guandaos)

1. a Chinese polearm with the blade mounted on top of the pole (as opposed to on the side like most European polearms).