glae

Irish

Alternative forms

• glaodh (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish gláed (compare Welsh glud, from Latin glūten (“glue”)).

Noun

glae m (genitive singular glae, nominative plural glaenna)

1. verbal noun of glaeigh
2. glue
3. gluey, sticky, substance; slime

Declension

Declension of glae (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative glae glaenna vocative a ghlae a ghlaenna genitive glae glaenna dative glae glaenna forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an glae na glaenna genitive an ghlae na nglaenna dative leis an nglae don ghlae leis na glaenna

• Alternative plural: glaecha

Synonyms

• (glue): gliú m

Derived terms

• glae glas (“bird-lime”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of glae

radical	lenition	eclipsis
glae	ghlae	nglae

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “glae”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 gláed”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language