gloine

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlˠɪnʲə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlˠɨ̞nʲə/

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 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

• Alternative plural: gloiniúcha (Cois Fharraige)

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

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.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gloine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →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
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 39