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"expansion": "Middle English *gloming",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "glōmung"
},
"expansion": "Old English glōmung",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "glōm",
"t": "twilight"
},
"expansion": "Old English glōm (“twilight”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gloom",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "By surface analysis, gloom + -ing",
"name": "surf"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "glow"
},
"expansion": "glow",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From a dialectal variant of glooming, from Middle English *gloming, from Old English glōmung, from Old English glōm (“twilight”). By surface analysis, gloom + -ing. Related to glow.\nThe OED notes: \"The vowel of the modern gloaming is anomalous, as Old English glōmung should normally become glooming. The explanation is probably that the ō was shortened in the compound ǣfen-glommung (as the spelling seems to show was actually the case), and that from this compound there was evolved a new subject glŏmung, which by normal phonetic development became Middle English glǭming, modern English gloaming.\"",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "gloaming",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "gloam"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of gloam"
],
"links": [
[
"gloam",
"gloam#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡləʊ.mɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡloʊ.mɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊmɪŋ"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-gloaming.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fc/En-us-gloaming.ogg/En-us-gloaming.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/En-us-gloaming.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"OED"
],
"word": "gloaming"
}
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