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

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
glas- ghlas- nglas-
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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