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)

  1. glass (material; drinking vessel)
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Etymology 2[edit]

Inflected form of glan.

Adjective[edit]

gloine

  1. Obsolete form of glaine.

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.

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