glainne
Scottish Gaelic edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish glain (“crystal, glass”), which was related to and confused with glaine, gloine (“glass, crystal”, literally “clearness, cleanness”) (compare modern Irish gloine), from glan (“clean, pure, clear, bright, exact, complete”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
glainne f (genitive singular glainne, plural glainneachan)
- glass
- (in the plural) glasses, spectacles
Usage notes edit
- 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 edit
- (glasses): speuclairean
Derived terms edit
- dà-ghlainne (“double-glazed”)
- glainneachan-grèine (“sunglasses”)
Adjective edit
glainne
Mutation edit
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
glainne | ghlainne |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “glainne”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “glain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 glaine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language