gloine

Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈɡlˠɪnʲə]

Etymology 1

From Old Irish glain (“crystal, glass”), which was related to and confused with glaine, gloine (“glass, crystal”, literally “clearness, cleanness”) (compare Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic glainne, gloinne), from glan (“clean, pure, clear, bright, exact, complete”).

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
  • earraí gloine m pl (“glassware”)
  • fíonghloine f (“wine glass”)
  • gloine aimsire f (“weather-glass, barometer”)
  • gloine choise f (“goblet”)
  • gloine dhaite f (“coloured, stained, glass”)
  • gloine féachana f (“spy-glass”)
  • gloine fíona f (“wine glass; glass of wine”)
  • gloine formhéadúcháin f (“magnifying glass”)
  • gloine fuinneoige f (“(pane of) window-glass”)
  • gloine uaireadóra f (“watch-glass”)
  • gloiní ceoil f pl (“musical glasses, glass harmonica”)
  • gloinigh (“vitrify; glaze”, verb)
  • gloiní gréine f pl (“sun-glasses”)
  • Oíche na Gloine Briste f (“Kristallnacht”)
  • séidteoir gloine m (“glass-blower, glass-cutter”)
  • teach gloine m (“glasshouse”)

Etymology 2

Inflected form of glan.

Adjective

gloine

  1. Obsolete form of glaine.

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gloine ghloine ngloine
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • "gloine" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “glain” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “1 glaine” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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