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Where does “glóir” come from?

glóir (Irish) comes from Old Irish glóir, from Latin glōria, from Latin -ana, from Latin -anus, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

glóir (Irish): glory; vocative/genitive singular of glór

Definitions

  1. glory; vocative/genitive singular of glór

Ancestry of “glóir”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Irishglóirglory; inflection of glór: ## vocative/genitive...
2Latinglōria—
3Latin-anainflection of -ānus: ## nominative/vocative...
4Latin-anusOf or pertaining to; -ian
5Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
6Proto-Italic*-om—
7Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—
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