gulban
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Celtic *gulbīnos, cognate to Welsh gylfin.
Noun
editgulban m
- beak
- c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 34
- in gulpan ― glosses Latin os turtoris ("turtledove's mouth")
- c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 34
- (Milan glosses only, figurative) something that stings
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 122b8
- .i. inna guilbniu .i. inna fochaide 7 inna ndígal.
- i.e. the stings, i.e. of tribulations and punishments.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 122b8
Inflection
editMasculine o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | gulban | gulbanL | gulbainL |
Vocative | gulbain | gulbanL | guilbniuH |
Accusative | gulbanN | gulbanL | guilbniuH |
Genitive | gulbainL | gulban | gulbanN |
Dative | gulbanL | guilbnib | guilbnib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
gulban | gulban pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/ |
ngulban |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gulban”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language