/ɡl̪ˠuːnʲ/, /ɡlˠuːnʲ/
BunúsFrom Old Irish glún, from Proto-Celtic *glūnos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu. Cognate with Breton glin (“knee”), Scottish Gaelic glùin and Welsh glin (“knee”), and further English knee, Latin genū (“knee”).
- feminineknee
“Chuaigh sé ar a dhá ghlúin.” — He got down on his knees.
“Chuir sí a glúin fúithi.” — She got down on one knee.
- femininegeneration
“ó ghlúin go glúin” — from generation to generation
“an ghlúin atá anois ann” — the present generation
- femininestep in series
“glúin staighre” — step of stairs
- femininenode
Foirmeachaglúine(genitive, singular) · glúine(nominative, plural) · glúin(indefinite, nominative, singular) · glúine(indefinite, nominative, plural) · a ghlúin(indefinite, singular, vocative) · a ghlúine(indefinite, plural, vocative) · glúine(genitive, indefinite, singular) · glún(genitive, indefinite, plural) · glúin(dative, indefinite, singular) · glúine(dative, indefinite, plural) · an ghlúin(definite, nominative, singular) · na glúine(definite, nominative, plural) · na glúine(definite, genitive, singular) · na nglún(definite, genitive, plural) · leis an nglúin(dative, definite, singular) · don ghlúin(dative, definite, singular) · leis na glúine(dative, definite, plural) · glúin(error-unrecognized-form) · ghlúin(error-unrecognized-form) · nglúin(error-unrecognized-form)