Where does “aiglas” come from?
aiglas (Tok Pisin) comes from English eyeglasses, from English glasses, from English glass, from Scottish Gaelic glas, from Middle Irish glas, from Old Irish glas, from Proto-Celtic glastos, from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰl̥h₃stós — to flourish; green, yellow.
aiglas (Tok Pisin): eyeglasses, spectacles
Definitions
- eyeglasses, spectacles
Ancestry of “aiglas”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | eyeglasses | Spectacles, glasses; plural of eyeglass |
| 2 | English | glasses | plural of glass; API pl; Spectacles, frames... |
| 3 | English | glass | An amorphous solid, often transparent substance... |
| 4 | Scottish Gaelic | glas | green; grey; lock |
| 5 | Middle Irish | glas | — |
| 6 | Old Irish | glas | green, greenish; blue, green-blue, grey-blue; the... |
| 7 | Proto-Celtic | glastos | green, blue |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰl̥h₃stós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰelh₃- | to flourish; green, yellow |