glainne

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• gloinne

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkl̪ˠaɲə/

Noun

glainne f (genitive singular glainne, plural glainneachan)

1. glass
2. (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

1. glass

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
glainne	ghlainne
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• 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), “glain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 glaine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language