glas-

Irish

Etymology 1

From glas (“green, grey; immature, unseasoned; raw, inexperienced; pale, sickly-hued”).

Prefix

glas-

1. green, greenish
2. grey, greyish
3. pale, pallid
4. immature, unseasoned
5. raw, inexperienced

Derived terms

• glas-seile (“water-brash”)
• glas-siocán (“hoar-frost, slight frost”)
• glas-stócach (“callow youth; half-grown boy”)
• glas-súileach (“grey-eyed; blue-eyed”, adjective)
• glas-súlach (“verjuice”)
• glasaimsir (“raw weather”)
• glasaithne (“slight acquaintance”)
• glasbhairneach (“(coarse kind of) limpet”)
• glasbhán (“pale green; wan, pallid”, adjective)
• glasbhodach (“raw, loutish, youth”)
• glasbhoicín (“squireen”)
• glasbhuí (“greenish yellow, olive-green”, adjective)
• glaschaint (“cross-talk, unmannerly talk”)
• glaschloch (“greenstone; whinstone”)
• glaschnó (“green, unripe, nut”)
• glaschomhrac (“brawling”)
• glasdair (“green, unseasoned, oak”)
• glasdonn (“hazel-grey”, adjective)
• glasdubh (“dark grey”, adjective)
• glasearcach (“raw recruit”)
• glasfhás (“green, fresh, growth”)
• glasfhearann (“green, grassy, land”)
• glasfhéarmhar (“green and grassy, verdant”, adjective)
• glasfhuar (“raw, chilly”, adjective)
• glasghála (“fresh gale”)
• glasgharbh (“fairly rough”, adjective)
• glasghné (“wan appearance; lividity”)
• glasghnéitheach (“livid”, adjective)
• glasghorm (“steely blue”, adjective)
• glasghort (“field of growing corn, of aftergrass”)
• glasliath (“pale grey; wan”, adjective)
• glasluibh (“green herb, wintergreen”)
• glasmhíol (“leveret”)
• glasodhar (“greyish brown”, adjective)
• glasphéarlach (“pearl grey”, adjective)
• glasphluma (“greengage”)
• glasphortán (“green crab”)
• glasreo (“hoar-frost”)
• glasuaine (“vivid green”, adjective)

 

Etymology 2

From glas (“lock”).

Prefix

glas-

1. locked, tight, secure

Derived terms

• glas-scriú (“check-screw”)
• glas-snaidhm (“double-knot”)
• glasbhá (“land-locked bay”)
• glascheannach (“hire-purchase”)
• glaschnó (“lock-nut, check-nut”)
• glaschomhla (“check-valve”)
• glaschuan (“land-locked harbour”)
• glasdíol (“part payment; part reparation”)
• glasghreim (“catchstitch”)
• glasíoc (“part payment, instalment”)
• glasoileán (“peninsula; island accessible by bridge or on foot at low tide”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of glas-

radical	lenition	eclipsis
glas-	ghlas-	nglas-

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “glas-”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “glas-”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024