gloine

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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)

  1. glass (material; drinking vessel)
Declension
Declension of gloine (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative gloine gloiní
vocative a ghloine a ghloiní
genitive gloine gloiní
dative gloine gloiní
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an ghloine na gloiní
genitive na gloine na ngloiní
dative leis an ngloine
don ghloine 		leis na gloiní
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Inflected form of glan.

Adjective

gloine

  1. Obsolete form of glaine.

Mutation

Mutated forms of gloine
radical lenition eclipsis
gloine ghloine ngloine

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 126
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 98, page 39
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “glain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ 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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