glé

See also: gle and glè

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish glé, from Proto-Celtic *gleiwos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɟlʲeː/

Adjective

glé

1. clear, bright (not muted or pale), vivid (bright, intense or colorful)

   Synonym: gléineach

2. clear, limpid, pure

   Synonyms: gléghlan, glinn, glan

3. clear, lucid (easily understood), pellucid

   Synonym: soiléir

Declension

Declension of glé

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	glé	ghlé	glé; ghlé2
vocative	ghlé		glé
genitive		glé	glé	glé
dative	glé; ghlé1	ghlé	glé; ghlé2
Comparative	níos glé
Superlative	is glé

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

• gléacht
• glébhinn
• glébhog
• glébhuí
• glédhathach
• glédhearg
• glégheal
• gléghlan

 

Related terms

• gléineach

Mutation

Mutated forms of glé

radical	lenition	eclipsis
glé	ghlé	nglé

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

Further reading

• “glé”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “glé”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 369
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “glé”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gleiwos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡʲlʲeː]

Adjective

glé

1. clear [with la ‘to’]

Quotations

• c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13^b12

  Masu glé lib trá in precept ro·pridchus-sa .i. as·réracht Críst hó marbaib, cid dia léicid cundubairt for drécht úaib de resurrectione hominum?

  If, then, what I have preached is clear to you, namely that Christ has risen from the dead, why do you pl leave doubt on a portion of you concerning the resurrection of humans?

  (literally, “…the preaching that I have preached…”)

Descendants

• Irish: glé
• Scottish Gaelic: glè

Mutation

Mutation of glé

radical	lenition	nasalization
glé	glé pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	nglé

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 glé”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Adverb

glé

1. Superseded spelling of glè.

Mutation

Mutation of glé

radical	lenition
glé	ghlé

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