o,ā adj. descriptive of various shades of light green and
blue, passing from grass-green to grey
, opposed on the one
hand to uaine green and on the other to gorm blue. It appears
in the list of colours given as names to the winds in
SR 58
seq.
and
Laws i 26.31 Comm.
I
(a) of green or greenish hue (esp. of growing things,
grass, trees, etc.):
géga glasa,
BS 30.17
.
ith nglass,
SG 80.9
.
do glas cainnind,
Laws ii 254.9
.
a gcrích bhranach
na mbenn nglas,
O'Gr. Cat. 513.6
.
ar chraoibh dhuilleaghlais,
TD 1.53
;
6.4
. Compar. glaisiu geltaibh gort `greener than
pastures is ivy,'
Auraic. 1189
. Superl. glaisium cnis `most
silvery of skin' (of the birch-tree),
5617
. As subst. :
fiad-ubull ... amail glas fiadan he,
Laws v 474.17 Comm.
Glas
nenta (name of a cat `Nettle-Green'),
O'Dav. 1045.
Compds.
¤choll
green hazel
,
LB 155a26
.
¤chraíbech
green
branches :
tene do glas-chrāibech,
MacCongl. 115.13
.
¤dair
green oak :
dairbre glas-darach,
CRR § 37
.
¤désach
green-spiked (of corn),
AFM v 1628.3
.
¤ḟér :
luigfér glasfeóir ┐
arbar,
LU 8124
(
FB 9
).
Fen. 50.22
.
¤ḟérach
green-grassy
,
TTebe 2268
.
¤géc glaisgēg darach,
SG 328.20
.
¤gésca :
glas-gesceda darach,
CRR § 37
.
¤gort a green cornfield
,
CCath. 4915
.
AFM vi 2332.28
.
¤míne `a green sward
,'
BS 90.y
.
(b)
blue, greenish blue ; greyish blue : dubglass (gl.
caeruleum),
Sg. 70b12
.
ba glas ┐ ba téntide a sliab,
Ml.
96b17
(ref. to
Exodus xxiv 10
: quasi opus lapidis sapphirini).
Cf.
dath glas ... forsind sl[é]ib fo chosmailius saphirr,
84d4
.
Of the eyes :
súil glass,
IT i 79.5
.
rosc glass,
TBC-LL¹ 206
.
Equative
glasidir buga indala suil,
BDD 97
. Cf.
IT i
119.27
(glaissigtir).
O'Cl.
s.v. bugha.
TBC-LL¹ 5270
. rinn-glas
keen and blue (?) :
M. an ruiscc rind-glais,
Cog. 102.22
. Of
the sky : Compar.
nem ... as glaisiu cach ligdath,
Ériu ii
110.2
. Of the sea :
itir glasmuir ocus tír,
Imr. Brain i 25 § 53
.
Acall. 741.
CCath. 3495
.
tar glas-muirib,
Hy Maine 134.15
.
clo do glasré[i]n,
RC xiii 222.3
(B. na F.).
on tSúir ... glais,
TD 17.33
;
2.1
. na mara glastonnacha
blue-waved
,
CF
(Eg.) 20
.
(c) Seems to be used of the blue dye extracted from woad
(hence called `glasen') :
croceo .i. glas vel tinctura,
Thes.
ii 361.8
(=
Ecl. iv 44
). ? To this : amail glas fiadan `like a
wild herb,'
Laws v 474.17
. Probably to this is due the doubtful gl. :
glas .i. cron no buide,
Manners and Customs i 436.
Of the
practice of tattooing with woad : Amargen ... gairglas gl.
icatá in colpa glas iarna crechad,
Anecd. v 22.18
and
n. 7
.
crecad glas ar na roscaib blue tattooing on the eye-lids,
Laws v
108.30 Comm.
See
ZCP x 400
-
401
(Meyer).
ediudh dearg
ocus glas ocus dond do macuiph airiuch ; ediudh corcrudh
ocus gorm do macuib rig,
Laws ii 146.12 Comm.
(d) Of metal :
co scenaib glasgéraib,
SCC 40.
BDD 82
.
scíath glass,
TBC-LL¹ 5413
.
do chainnlig na ṅglas-gae,
Ériu iv
26 § 15
.
taitnem ... na [n]glasluirech,
CCath. 5447
.
Ériu i
88 § 35.
Cf.
Cog. 202.9
... a chlaideb ṅ-glasseltach,
TBC-LL¹
4603
.
as bhar n-geimlechaib ... glas-iaraind,
MR 178.4
.
CCath. 2627
.
catháir glas airgdidi (glassairgit v.l.),
BDD
105
. glas-ghall a Viking
(so called from their steel armour),
MacCarthy 422.z
.
Ériu i 88 § 35.
(e) Of frost or ice : madain ghlaisreódha `shining with
frost,'
BS 90.z
.
(f) Of shades of grey : cói ... hi ṁbrot glass the cuckoo in a
grey mantle,
Thes. ii 290.9
.
graig n-gabor n-glas,
SCC 33.14
.
dá ech ... brecglassa,
LU 8590
(
FB 45
). glas-chullach a grey
stallion
,
Dinds. § 107
(RC xvi). an Glas gaillmhe (name of a
horse),
Acall. 282
.
mong glas gaisidech,
RC xxiv 196.17
.
glas-chlocha,
CF 739
. forsan nglaslicc cloiche on the grey
flagstone,
RC xxvi 370.3
.
xiii 66 § 68
.
TBC-LL¹ 750
.
¤chéo
a grey mist
,
5042
.
¤nél dub dorchaidhe,
TTr.² 848
.
glas-neoill ... na maitne,
CCath. 4362
. snath glasolla unbleached
woollen thread,
Laws i 152.10 Comm.
See also (c).
(g)
wan (of complexion) ; bluish, livid, discoloured ; faded
(of garments) :
glas mo ghrúadh,
BS 118.23
. beid cassa
is lāma ... glassa (of corpses),
ACL iii 239 § 22
.
cech det
glasbuide,
FB 37
(Eg.).
corran glaisḟiacla,
RC xxiv 196.19
.
se glunmár ... glasingnech,
FB 37
(Eg.). cruib garbae
glaissfet[h]ac[h]a with livid sinews (?),
CCath. 4029
. an tí
ghlas ní dheachaidh de the livid mark (of Goídel Glas),
Keat. ii 306
(poem).
nídat glasa slíma a mbruit,
Acall. 797
.
As subst. a livid mark, bruise : math glas nō derg nō att 'if it be a bruise or an abrasion or a swelling'
Cáin Ad. 28 § 44
,
Ériu lii 127
.
ni thernó ... gan chned no gan glas
no gan derg,
RC xv 202.10
.
(h) Modifying or modified by another adj. of colour :
aghaid glasban
pallid
,
CCath. 4022
.
each glasbhán,
Rev.
vi 8
.
na gruaidhe arna nglas-bhánadh,
TSh. 1094
.
det
glasbuide,
FB 37
(Eg.).
cleirech glaisliath,
Anecd. i 70 § 173
.
madra ... glasodhar,
Acall. 1900
. in t-ṡódh ... glasrod (v.ll.
glasródh ; ghlasrúadh) russet,
TBC-LL¹ 2366
. go ganem nglasruad
reddish-grey
,
TTebe 1967
. brat dubglas
dark-blue
,
TBC-LL¹ 5450
St. baill dub-glassa
livid
,
Three Hom. 80.16
.
II Fig.
(a) glasmartre : a stage of self-mortification
midway
between bán- and dergmartre (glas being an intermediate
hue) (see
Ireland in Early Mediaeval Europe 44
):
filus trechenélæ martre daneu adrímiter ar chruich
... báanmartre ocus glasmartre ocus dercmartre ... issí ind
glasmartre dó in tain scaras fria thola léo ł céssas saithor i
ppennit ocus aithrigi,
Thes. ii 246
-
247
(Camb. Hom.).
(b)
fresh, young :
glass glēthach Nūadu,
Ält. Ir. Dicht. i
41 § 36.
Cf. glasaigne, glasláth. Fig. iar mbethaid
glūair
glasglain,
ZCP vi 265 § 20.
(c)
fresh, raw, sharp
.
(1) Of the weather (prob. orig.
grey, overcast) :
Ingoeth glas,
IT iii 17 § 45
.
is glas errach
oighreta,
KMMisc. 313.23
.
re sidi ṅglasfuar ṅgaithi,
TTebe
2402
.
aimṡer lethglas,
ZCP viii 195 § 16
.
glas ūar errach
aigide,
Ériu vii 4 § 3.
(2) Fig. in moral sense
harsh :
rochertus for Lagniu lánēraic glais gluind,
PRIA iii
552 § 42
(
LL 147 a49
). Intensive,
out and out, stark :
'na gheilt
ghlas,
BS 6.y
.
gleo glasgharbh,
Acall. 604
. Possibly
also
ZCP vi 265 § 20
. See II (b) supra.
(d)
neutral-tinted, hence fig. plain, unpretentious, unassuming :
re dán nglas ... | dán breaghdha do bhreágnachadh,
Content. vii § 13
.
is glas an sníomh an sníomh sin,
ib. n
.
(e) Leg. cú glas (derogatory) an immigrant from overseas (lit. grey wolf) :
secht n-aithre la Feine nad icat cinta a mac, ri ocus esbog ...
ocus cu glas,
Laws v 234.24
.
mac con glais .i. mac in con tar
glas na fairgi,
ib. 202.5
. Cf.
Ir. Recht § 33
;
ZCP xix 348.
III Various compds.
¤bachall name of a crozier
(prob. so called from its colour),
BNnÉ 315 § 10
.
¤fhian (1) name of some sept (?) :
in
ghlaisfhian do mharbad ... ┐ rí na glaisfhéine .i. Mant na
mulchán Ua Ruairc,
ALC i 232.14
,
16
(
AFM iii 124
). (2)
a warrior-band of the Fianna
(named from colour of armour
or standards ?),
Oss. iii 88.13
.
¤fhine the child of an Irish woman
by a foreigner; descendants of a woman by a cú glas :
glasfine mac mna ditfini beres do albanach,
Laws iv 284.19
.
glasfine .i. gabair tar glas na fairge .i. mac
murcuirthe .i. mac ... beres bean don ḟine d'albanach,
290.6
-7.
? ¤ḟúaróit : tre gerrolainn nglasḟúaróte, 'for the sake of a cold, grey, short fleece'
EIS 168 § 83
.
¤láith, see separate heading.
¤mes (?) : grúaca a cennaib,
glasmes ndóine `na ré (i.e. in reign of Flann Sinda),
ZCP
xii 235 § 52
.
¤reng a boar :
glasreng .i. torc,
LU 1287
;
1327
.
a wolf (?) : g
s.
co rucsat (leg. ruca sat) glasrinde ... fon
muine (v.l. sod maic thíre),
D IV 2, 63rb46
(=
fol. 86
). co nglassríanaib, 'with unornamented (lit. grey) bridles'
Críth G. 14.346
,
EIF 89
.
IV o, npr
m.
Glass mac Caiss,
Trip. ii 570.16
;
122.25
.
pl.
na trí Glais,
LU 9083
(
FB 83
). See also
Heldensage
(Index) ;
Rawl. (Index). f. an Ghlas Ghoibnenn (name of a
cow), see Goibniu.