gloine

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡl̪ˠɪnʲə/, /ˈɡlˠɪnʲə/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɪnə/, /ˈɡlɪn̠ʲə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlˠɨ̞nʲə/, /ˈɡl̪ˠɨ̞nʲə/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish glain (“crystal, glass”), which was related to and confused with glaine, gloine (“glass, crystal”, literally “clearness”), from Proto-Celtic *glanyo-, an extension of *glanis (compare Scottish Gaelic glainne, gloinne), from glan (“clean, clear”).

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

Mutated forms of gloine

radical	lenition	eclipsis
gloine	ghloine	ngloine

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) “gloine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN