glé

See also: gle and glè

Acehnese

Alternative forms

Noun

glé

  1. hill
    Synonym: cöt

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish glé,[1] from Proto-Celtic *gleiwos.

Pronunciation

Adjective

glé

  1. clear, bright (not muted or pale), vivid (bright, intense or colorful)
    Synonym: gléineach
  2. clear, limpid, pure
    Synonyms: gléghlan, glinn, glan
  3. clear, lucid (easily understood), pellucid
    Synonym: soiléir

Declension

Declension of glé
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative glé ghlé glé;
ghlé2
vocative ghlé glé
genitive glé glé glé
dative glé;
ghlé1 		ghlé glé;
ghlé2
Comparative níos glé
Superlative is glé

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

  • gléacht
  • glébhinn
  • glébhog
  • glébhuí
  • glédhathach
  • glédhearg
  • glégheal
  • gléghlan

Mutation

Mutated forms of glé
radical lenition eclipsis
glé ghlé nglé

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 glé”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 39, page 21
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 134

Further reading

  • “glé”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “glé”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 369
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “glé”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gleiwos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡʲlʲeː]

Adjective

glé

  1. clear [with la ‘to’]

Quotations

  • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13b12
    Masu glé lib trá in precept ro·pridchus-sa .i. as·réracht Críst hó marbaib, cid dia léicid cundubairt for drécht úaib de resurrectione hominum?
    If, then, what I have preached is clear to you, namely that Christ has risen from the dead, why do you pl leave doubt on a portion of you concerning the resurrection of humans?
    (literally, “…the preaching that I have preached…”)

Descendants

  • Irish: glé
  • Scottish Gaelic: glè

Mutation

Mutation of glé
radical lenition nasalization
glé glé
pronounced with /ɣʲ-/		 nglé

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

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Adverb

glé

  1. superseded spelling of glè

Mutation

Mutation of glé
radical lenition
glé ghlé

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

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