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)

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

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.