gloine

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡl̪ˠɪnʲə/, /ˈɡlˠɪnʲə/
  • (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈɡlɪnə/, /ˈɡlɪn̠ʲə/[1]
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈɡlˠɨ̞nʲə/, /ˈɡl̪ˠɨ̞nʲə/[2]

Etymology 1

From Old Irish glaine (crystal, glass),[3] from Proto-Celtic *glanyo-, an extension of *glanis (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
singular plural
nominative gloine gloiní
vocative a ghloine a ghloiní
genitive gloine gloiní
dative gloine gloiní
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an ghloine na gloiní
genitive na gloine na ngloiní
dative leis an ngloine
don ghloine
leis na gloiní
Derived terms
  • earraí gloine (glassware)
  • fíonghloine (wine glass)
  • gloine aimsire (weather-glass, barometer)
  • gloine choise (goblet)
  • gloine dhaite (coloured, stained, glass)
  • gloine féachana (spy-glass)
  • gloine fíona (wine glass; glass of wine)
  • gloine formhéadúcháin (magnifying glass)
  • gloine fuinneoige
  • gloine uaireadóra (watch-glass)
  • gloiní (glassy)
  • gloiní ceoil (musical glasses, glass harmonica)
  • gloiní gréine (sun-glasses)
  • gloinigh (vitrify, glaze)
  • Oíche na Gloine Briste
  • séidteoir gloine (glass-blower, glass-cutter)
  • teach gloine (glasshouse)

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), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], 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), “1 glaine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡlonʲe]

Noun

gloine f

  1. alternative form of glaine

Declension

Feminine iā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative gloineL
vocative gloineL
accusative gloiniN
genitive gloine
dative gloiniL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of gloine
radical lenition nasalization
gloine gloine
pronounced with /ɣ-/
ngloine

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