Albiones

Latin edit

"Nicer Clutosi [ex] Ɔ(astella) Cauriaca principis Albionum"

Etymology edit

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from Proto-Celtic *albiyū (“the upper world”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰós (“white”).^[1]

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /alˈbi.o.nes/, [äɫ̪ˈbiɔnɛs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /alˈbi.o.nes/, [älˈbiːones]

Proper noun edit

Albionēs m pl (genitive Albionum); third declension

A Celtic tribe of Gallaecia, located in the west bank of the Navia river

Declension edit

Third-declension noun, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	Albionēs
Genitive	Albionum
Dative	Albionibus
Accusative	Albionēs
Ablative	Albionibus
Vocative	Albionēs

Related terms edit

Albion

References edit

Albiones in Falileyev, Alexander (1997). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names, Aberystwyth University.

^ Cf. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 29.

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