glas

From Dutch glas, from Middle Dutch glas, from Old Dutch glas, from Proto-West Germanic *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”).

• IPA^(key): /χlas/

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glas (plural glase, diminutive glasie)

1. (uncountable) glass (material)
2. (countable) glass (vessel)

• glashuis

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɑːs/

glas

1. blue
2. green

From Middle High German glas, from Old High German glas, from Proto-West Germanic *glas, Proto-Germanic *glasą (“glass”). Cognate with German Glas, English glass.

glas n (plural gléezar, diminutive glèzale) (Luserna, Sette Comuni)

1. glass (material)

   de gléezar 'me béestre ― window panes

2. glass (drinking vessel)

   Synonym: tatza

   an glas bàin ― a glass of wine

• gléezaran

• “glas” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
• “glas” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

From Middle Cornish glas, from Proto-Brythonic *glas, from Proto-Celtic *glastos.

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [ɡlaːz]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [ɡlæːz]

glas

1. blue

   Synonym: blou

2. green (of living things)
3. grey

glas

1. Alternative form of glaz

From Old Norse glas(keri), itself borrowed from Middle Low German glas, from Old Saxon glas.

glas n (singular definite glasset, plural indefinite glas)

1. (uncountable) glass (substance)
2. glass (drinking vessel)
3. (nautical) bells, a mark given by the bells of a ship every half hour to mark the passing of time during a four-hour watch. There were eight bells per watch and then the counting started from the beginning.

• forstørrelsesglas

• → Icelandic: glas

• “glas” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “glas” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

From Middle Dutch glas, from Old Dutch glas, from Proto-West Germanic *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”). Compare Low German Glas, German Glas, English glass, West Frisian glês, Icelandic gler.

• IPA^(key): /ɣlɑs/

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• Hyphenation: glas
• Rhymes: -ɑs

glas n (plural glazen, diminutive glaasje n)

1. (uncountable) glass (material)

   Vensters zijn gemaakt van glas. ― Windows are made of glass.

2. (countable) glass (vessel)

   Staan er al glazen op tafel? ― Are there glasses on the table yet?

3. (countable) glass (quantity)

   Drink even een glas water. ― Drink a glass of water.

• Afrikaans: glas
• Berbice Creole Dutch: glasi
• Negerhollands: glas
• → Caribbean Hindustani: gilás
• → Caribbean Javanese: gelas
• → Indonesian: gelas
• → Japanese: ガラス (garasu)
• → Papiamentu: glas
• → Sranan Tongo: grasi
  • → Galibi Carib: kalasi (or directly)

• slag

From Old Norse glas(keri), itself borrowed from Middle Low German glas, from Old Saxon glas.

• IPA^(key): /klɛaːs/

glas n (genitive singular glas, plural gløs)

1. glass (material)
2. glass (beverage container)
3. glass (quantity)
4. little bottle

From Vulgar Latin *classum, from Latin classicum (“trumpet signal”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡla/, /ɡlɑ/
• (France) IPA^(key): /ɡla/, /ɡlɑ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ

glas m (plural glas)

1. (funeral) bell
2. (figuratively) death knell (omen)

• sonner le glas

• “glas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

glas

1. mirror

From French glace (“ice”).

glas

1. ice

• glase

From Old Norse glas(keri), itself borrowed from Middle Low German glas, from Old Saxon glas.

• IPA^(key): /klaːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

glas n (genitive singular glass, nominative plural glös)

1. glass (beverage container)

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ɡl̪ˠɑsˠ/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ɡlɑsˠ/
• (Connemara) IPA^(key): /ɡl̪ˠasˠ/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡlˠasˠ/

From Old Irish glas, from Proto-Celtic *glastos.

glas (genitive singular masculine glais, genitive singular feminine glaise, plural glasa, comparative glaise)

1. green (of grass, trees, etc.)

   Proverb: Is glas na cnoic i bhfad uainn ― Far-off hills are green.

   1. young and fresh, unripe
   2. immature, unseasoned
   3. raw, inexperienced
   4. unwrought
   5. weak in sustenance
   6. pale, sickly-hued
2. grey (of sheep, horses, cloth, wool, etc.; of eyes)
   1. (of eyes) grey(-blue); light blue
   2. (of metal) lustrous, bright, steely
   3. (of atmosphere) dismal, raw, chilly
3. (politics) green
4. (literary) blue

glas m (genitive singular glais)

1. green (colour)
2. grey (colour)
3. grey material

glas f (genitive singular glaise, nominative plural glasa)

1. grey cow

glas (present analytic glasann, future analytic glasfaidh, verbal noun glasadh, past participle glasta)

1. (transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of glasaigh (“become green”)

From Old Irish glas (“clasp, lock”).

glas m (genitive singular glais, nominative plural glais)

1. lock

   Is fearr glas ná amhras. (proverb)

   Better safe than sorry.

From sense 1 (“green”).

glas f (genitive singular glaise, nominative plural glasa)

1. rivulet, stream

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “glas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “glas” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “glas” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 39
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 21

From Old Dutch glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą.

• IPA^(key): /ɣlas/

glas n

1. glass (substance)

• Dutch: glas
  • Afrikaans: glas
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: glasi
  • Negerhollands: glas
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: gilás
  • → Caribbean Javanese: gelas
  • → Indonesian: gelas
  • → Japanese: ガラス (garasu)
  • → Papiamentu: glas
  • → Sranan Tongo: grasi
    • → Galibi Carib: kalasi (or directly)
• Limburgish: glaas

• “glas”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “glas”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• glace, glasce, glass, glasse

Inherited from Old English glæs, from Proto-West Germanic *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlas/, /ˈɡlaːs/, /ˈɡlɛs/

glas (plural glasses)

1. Glass (substance made with melted sand):

   • a. 1394, Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales‎, lines 151-152:

     Ful semyly hir wympul pynched was /Hir nose tretys, hir eyen greye as glas […]

     Her wimple was folded in quite a seemly way / Her nose [was] slender; her eyes [were] grey like glass […]

2. An object made of or containing glass:
   1. A glass; a cup or drinking-vessel made of glass.
   2. A box, receptacle, or vessel made of glass.
   3. A mirror made of glass; a piece of glass for personal grooming.
   4. (rare) A sandglass; a sand timer.
3. Ground-up glass as used in alchemy and pharmaceuticals.
4. A kind of crystal similar in appearance to glass.
5. (rare) A shard or fragment of glass.

• English: glass (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: gless, glass

• “glas, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-20.

glas f

1. glass (substance)

glas n (definite singular glaset, indefinite plural glas, definite plural glasa or glasene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by glass

From Middle Low German glas.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɑːs/

glas n (definite singular glaset, indefinite plural glas, definite plural glasa)

1. glass (hard and transparent material)
2. glass (drink container made of glass)
3. window

• glass (Bokmål)

• “glas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlas/

From Proto-Celtic *glastos.

glas

1. green, greenish (especially of growing things, grass, trees, etc.)
2. blue, green-blue, grey-blue
3. the colour of the blue dye extracted from woad
4. metallic in colour
5. the colour of frost or ice
6. shades of grey
7. wan (of complexion)
8. bluish, livid, discolored
9. faded (of clothing)

From earlier *glapsâ, which could be related to Old English clyppan (“to clasp, embrace, hold onto”).

glas m or f

1. lock, fetter, clasp, bolt
2. winding up, conclusion

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 glas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 glas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “glas”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page glas

• gles

From Proto-West Germanic *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”). Compare Old English glæs, Old Dutch glas, Old Frisian gles, Old High German glas, clas, Old Norse gler.

glas n

1. glass

• Middle Low German: glas
  • German Low German: Glas
  • Plautdietsch: Glauss
  • → Old Norse: glas (in glaskeri)
    • Faroese: glas
    • Norwegian: glass, glas
    • Old Swedish: glas
      • Swedish: glas
        • → Finnish: lasi, klasi
          • → Ingrian: klasi (from earlier klasi)
          • → Votic: klazi (from earlier klasi)
    • Old Danish: glas
      • Danish: glas
        • → Icelandic: glas
    • Westrobothnian: glæs, glås

From Old Church Slavonic гласъ (glasŭ, “voice”), from Proto-Slavic *golsъ.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlas/
• Rhymes: -as

glas n (plural glasuri)

1. voice
2. vote

• voce

• IPA^(key): /kl̪ˠas̪/
• Hyphenation: glas

From Old Irish glas (descriptive of various shades of light green and blue, passing from grass-green to grey). Cognates include Irish glas and Manx glass.

glas (genitive singular masculine glais, genitive singular feminine glaise, nominative plural glasa, comparative glaise)

1. green (of grass, trees, etc.; also "inexperienced")
2. grey (of sheep, horses, cloth, wool, etc.; also of eyes)

glas (past ghlas, future glasaidh, verbal noun glasadh, past participle glaste)

1. (intransitive) to pale; to greyen

From Old Irish glas (“clasp, lock”). Cognate with Irish glas and Manx glass.

glas f (genitive singular glaise, plural glasan)

1. lock

glas (past ghlas, future glasaidh, verbal noun glasadh, past participle glaste)

1. (transitive) to lock

• glais

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “glas”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Colin Mark (2003) The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 334
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 glas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 glas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Slavic *golsъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *galsás.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlâːs/

glȃs m (Cyrillic spelling гла̑с)

1. voice
2. vote
3. (expressively) news
4. (linguistics) phone

• glȁsan

• “glas” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Slavic *golsъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *galsás.

• IPA^(key): /ɡláːs/

glȃs m inan

1. voice

• “glas”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

glas (invariable)

1. Only used in azúcar glas

• “glas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Old Swedish glas, from Middle Low German glas, from Old Saxon glas.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɑːs/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːs

glas n

1. glass (material)
2. glass (vessel)

• → Finnish: lasi, klasi
  • → Ingrian: klasi (from earlier klasi)
  • → Votic: klazi (from earlier klasi)

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN

• glas in Svensk ordbok.

• algs, lags, slag

From English glass.

glas

1. glass (as in glass of water)

• IPA^(key): /ɡlaːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

From Middle Welsh and Old Welsh glas, from Proto-Brythonic *glas, from Proto-Celtic *glastos. Doublet of glân (“clean”), arsenig (“arsenic”), and clorin (“chlorine”).

Cognate with Cornish glas (“blue, green, grey”), Breton glas (“blue”), Irish glas (“green, grey”), Scottish Gaelic glas (“grey, green, unripe”) and Manx glass (“green, grey, pale, raw”).

glas (feminine singular glas, plural gleision, equative glased, comparative glasach, superlative glasaf)

1. blue
2. (archaic) green (of plants), verdant, unripe

   Synonym: gwyrdd

3. (archaic) pale blue or green, slate-coloured
4. (archaic) silver

   Synonym: arian

5. early, dawning, young, raw, immature
   • 2001, Menna Elfyn, "Er cof am Kelly":

     Panig wedi'r poen. / "My God its only a little girl" / Meddai'r glas filwr.

The word glas used to cover a much wider range of colours than it does in modern Welsh, from green (especially of nature) through blue to slaty grey and silver. In the present-day language it corresponds to English "blue" but is occasionally found in phrases and compound words to convey other colours.

• glasfyfyriwr (“freshman, fresher, first-year student”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

glas

1. Soft mutation of clas (“cloister”).