glainne
Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
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”).
Noun
glainne f (genitive singular glainne, plural glainneachan)
- glass
- (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”)
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
- Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- “glain” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
- “1 glaine” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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