glainne
Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish glaine (“glass, crystal”, literally “clearness, cleanness”) (compare modern Irish gloine), from glan (“clean, clear”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkl̪ˠaɲə/
Noun
glainne f (genitive singular glainne, plural glainneachan)
- glass
- (in the plural) glasses, spectacles
Usage notes
- As in English, the word may refer either to the substance or to a container, and the plural can have the meaning of glasses, spectacles.
Synonyms
- (glasses): speuclairean
Derived terms
- dà-ghlainne (“double-glazed”)
- glainneachan-grèine (“sunglasses”)
Adjective
glainne
Mutation
| radical | lenition |
|---|---|
| glainne | ghlainne |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “glainne”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 glaine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language