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Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish glain (“crystal, glass”),[3] which was related to and confused with glaine, gloine (“glass, crystal”, literally “clearness”)[4] (compare Scottish Gaelic glainne, gloinne), from glan (“clean, clear”).
Noun
gloine f or m (genitive singular gloine, nominative plural gloiní)
- glass (material; drinking vessel)
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Inflected form of glan.
Adjective
gloine
- Obsolete form of glaine.
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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gloine
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ghloine
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ngloine
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 126
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 98, page 39
- ^ 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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