The gold or silver light you see shimmering on the water at night is called moonglade or moonwake. Similarly, the sun shining on the water is called sunglade or sunwake. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Moonglade and Sunwake”
We got a call from Nancy Baker who lives in the Chicago area and she was wondering if there’s a word for the beautiful ribbon of gold that you see on water at night, gold or silver with moonlight on the water.
Yeah, it looks like its own thing and the ripples control it and change its shape.
Yeah.
And there are a couple of words for that in English.
One of them is moon glade.
Moon glade.
And moon wake.
Moon wake.
And you can also have sun glade and sun wake.
And the glade there, if you think of a glade, it’s like an opening in the woods.
Yeah.
And the idea is that it’s a clearing. It’s light compared to the dark part of the wood.
And so…
Is that related to the word glad?
I think it might be, actually.
I think it has to do with brightness.
So if you want a word for the beautiful moonlight on water, it’s moonglade.
Moonglade. Nice.
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