gloine
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Irish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Irish glain (“crystal, glass”), which was related to and confused with glaine, gloine (“glass, crystal”, literally “clearness, cleanness”) (compare Scottish Gaelic glainne, gloinne), from glan (“clean, pure, clear, bright, exact, complete”).
Noun[edit]
gloine f or m (genitive singular gloine, nominative plural gloiní)
- glass (material; drinking vessel)
Declension[edit]
Declension of gloine
- Alternative plural: gloiniúcha (Cois Fharraige)
Derived terms[edit]
- earraí gloine (“glassware”)
- fíonghloine (“wine glass”)
- gloine aimsire (“weather-glass, barometer”)
- gloine choise (“goblet”)
- gloine dhaite (“coloured, stained, glass”)
- gloine féachana (“spy-glass”)
- gloine fíona (“wine glass; glass of wine”)
- gloine formhéadúcháin (“magnifying glass”)
- gloine fuinneoige
- gloine uaireadóra (“watch-glass”)
- gloiní (“glassy”)
- gloiní ceoil (“musical glasses, glass harmonica”)
- gloiní gréine (“sun-glasses”)
- gloinigh (“vitrify, glaze”)
- Oíche na Gloine Briste
- séidteoir gloine (“glass-blower, glass-cutter”)
- teach gloine (“glasshouse”)
Etymology 2[edit]
Inflected form of glan.
Adjective[edit]
gloine
Mutation[edit]
Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
gloine | ghloine | ngloine |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “gloine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “glain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 glaine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 39
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