glāze

Borrowed from Middle Dutch glas or Middle Low German glas (“glass (material; container)”). The Germanic term probably meant originally “amber” (a meaning still attested in Old High German), and only later “glass.” The borrowing is first mentioned in 17th-century Latvian dictionaries (though the family name Glāznieks is already attested in Kurzeme in the 16th century). Up until the 19th century, glāze meant both the material and the container; by the late 19th century on, these two meanings had already been split between glāze and stikls.^[1]

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glāze f (5th declension)

1. glass (small, usually cylindrical container for liquids, from which one drinks)

   vīna, alus glāze ― wine, beer glass

   kristāla glāzes ― crystal glasses

   krāsaina stikla glāzes ― glasses (made) of colored glass

   ieliet limonādi glāzēs ― to pour lemonade in the glasses

   tēvs paņem vīna pudeli un piepilda glāzes ― father takes the wine bottle and fills the glasses

2. glass (the container with its contents; its contents)

   “jūs esat lielisks runātājs, biedri Saleniek”, teica Ozols, pasniegdams ūdens glāzi ― “you are a great speaker, comrade Saleniek,” Ozols said, handing him a glass of water

   apsēdies, izdzer glāzi piena ― sit down, drink a glass of milk

   saputotām olām pievienot glāzi piena ― to add a glass of milk to the whipped eggs

   divām glāzēm ogu pievienot divas glāzes cukura ― to add two glasses of sugar to two glasses of berries

3. (dated sense, syn. stikls) glass (material)

   zilas glāžu sienas ― blue glass walls

   palielināmā, (pa)vairojamā glāze ― magnifying glass

• (of material): stikls