gloine
Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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
gloine f or m (genitive singular gloine, nominative plural gloiní)
- glass (material; drinking vessel)
Declension
Declension of gloine
- Alternative plural: gloiniúcha (Cois Fharraige)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Inflected form of glan.
Adjective
gloine
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gloine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “glain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 glaine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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