"Albu" meaning in Old Irish

See Albu in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˈalbu/
Etymology: From Proto-Celtic *albiyū. Compare Old Welsh elbid. Etymology templates: {{inh|sga|cel-pro|*albiyū}} Proto-Celtic *albiyū, {{cog|owl|elbid}} Old Welsh elbid Head templates: {{head|sga|proper noun|genitive|Alban|g=f}} Albu f (genitive Alban) Inflection templates: {{sga-decl-n-mf|Albain|Alban|g=f|n=s}}, {{sga-decl-noun|acc_du=Albain+L|acc_du2=|acc_du3=|acc_du4=|acc_pl=Albuna+H|acc_pl2=|acc_pl3=|acc_sg=Albain+N|acc_sg2=|acc_sg3=|acc_sg4=|acc_sg5=|class=n-f|dat_du=Albunaib|dat_du2=|dat_du3=|dat_pl=Albunaib|dat_pl2=|dat_pl3=|dat_sg=Albain+L|dat_sg2=Albu+L|dat_sg3=|dat_sg4=|dat_sg5=|dat_sg6=|gen_du=Alban+L|gen_du2=|gen_du3=|gen_pl=Alban+N|gen_pl2=|gen_pl3=|gen_sg=Alban|gen_sg2=|gen_sg3=|n=s|nom_du=Albain+L|nom_du2=|nom_du3=|nom_du4=|nom_pl=Albain|nom_pl2=|nom_pl3=|nom_sg=Albu|nom_sg2=|nom_sg3=|nom_sg4=|voc_du=Albain+L|voc_du2=|voc_du3=|voc_du4=|voc_pl=Albuna+H|voc_pl2=|voc_pl3=|voc_sg=Albu|voc_sg2=|voc_sg3=|voc_sg4=}} Forms: Alban [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], Albu [nominative, singular], - [dual, nominative], - [nominative, plural], Albu [singular, vocative], - [dual, vocative], - [plural, vocative], Albain [accusative, singular], - [accusative, dual], - [accusative, plural], Alban [genitive, singular], - [dual, genitive], - [genitive, plural], Albain [dative, singular], Albu [dative, singular], - [dative, dual], - [dative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], Albu [error-unrecognized-form], pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments [error-unrecognized-form], nAlbu
  1. Scotland (a country in Great Britain) Tags: feminine Categories (place): Countries, Scotland
    Sense id: en-Albu-sga-name-FRoqf~Te Categories (other): Old Irish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Old Irish entries with incorrect language header: 57 43 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 78 22 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 78 22
  2. Britain (an island) Tags: feminine Categories (place): Islands Synonyms: Bretain
    Sense id: en-Albu-sga-name-Q2WuUMHx

Inflected forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ga",
            "2": "Alba",
            "3": "Albain"
          },
          "expansion": "Irish: Alba, Albain",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Irish: Alba, Albain"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gv",
            "2": "Nalbin"
          },
          "expansion": "Manx: Nalbin",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Manx: Nalbin"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gd",
            "2": "Alba"
          },
          "expansion": "Scottish Gaelic: Alba",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scottish Gaelic: Alba"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "*albiyū"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *albiyū",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "owl",
        "2": "elbid"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Welsh elbid",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Celtic *albiyū. Compare Old Welsh elbid.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Alban",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sga-decl-n-mf",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Albu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Albu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Albain",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Alban",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Albain",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Albu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Albu",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nAlbu",
      "source": "mutation"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "proper noun",
        "3": "genitive",
        "4": "Alban",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "Albu f (genitive Alban)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Albain",
        "2": "Alban",
        "g": "f",
        "n": "s"
      },
      "name": "sga-decl-n-mf"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "acc_du": "Albain+L",
        "acc_du2": "",
        "acc_du3": "",
        "acc_du4": "",
        "acc_pl": "Albuna+H",
        "acc_pl2": "",
        "acc_pl3": "",
        "acc_sg": "Albain+N",
        "acc_sg2": "",
        "acc_sg3": "",
        "acc_sg4": "",
        "acc_sg5": "",
        "class": "n-f",
        "dat_du": "Albunaib",
        "dat_du2": "",
        "dat_du3": "",
        "dat_pl": "Albunaib",
        "dat_pl2": "",
        "dat_pl3": "",
        "dat_sg": "Albain+L",
        "dat_sg2": "Albu+L",
        "dat_sg3": "",
        "dat_sg4": "",
        "dat_sg5": "",
        "dat_sg6": "",
        "gen_du": "Alban+L",
        "gen_du2": "",
        "gen_du3": "",
        "gen_pl": "Alban+N",
        "gen_pl2": "",
        "gen_pl3": "",
        "gen_sg": "Alban",
        "gen_sg2": "",
        "gen_sg3": "",
        "n": "s",
        "nom_du": "Albain+L",
        "nom_du2": "",
        "nom_du3": "",
        "nom_du4": "",
        "nom_pl": "Albain",
        "nom_pl2": "",
        "nom_pl3": "",
        "nom_sg": "Albu",
        "nom_sg2": "",
        "nom_sg3": "",
        "nom_sg4": "",
        "voc_du": "Albain+L",
        "voc_du2": "",
        "voc_du3": "",
        "voc_du4": "",
        "voc_pl": "Albuna+H",
        "voc_pl2": "",
        "voc_pl3": "",
        "voc_sg": "Albu",
        "voc_sg2": "",
        "voc_sg3": "",
        "voc_sg4": ""
      },
      "name": "sga-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old Irish",
  "lang_code": "sga",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "sga",
          "name": "Countries",
          "orig": "sga:Countries",
          "parents": [
            "Polities",
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "sga",
          "name": "Scotland",
          "orig": "sga:Scotland",
          "parents": [
            "Constituent countries of the United Kingdom",
            "United Kingdom",
            "British Isles",
            "Countries",
            "Countries in Europe",
            "Europe",
            "Islands",
            "Polities",
            "Places",
            "Earth",
            "Eurasia",
            "Names",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "57 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Scotland (a country in Great Britain)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Albu-sga-name-FRoqf~Te",
      "links": [
        [
          "Scotland",
          "Scotland#English"
        ],
        [
          "Great Britain",
          "Great Britain#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "sga",
          "name": "Islands",
          "orig": "sga:Islands",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Britain (an island)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Albu-sga-name-Q2WuUMHx",
      "links": [
        [
          "Britain",
          "Britain#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Bretain"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈalbu/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Albu"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Old Irish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old Irish feminine nouns",
    "Old Irish lemmas",
    "Old Irish masculine or feminine n-stem nouns",
    "Old Irish proper nouns",
    "Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
    "Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic",
    "Old Irish uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ga",
            "2": "Alba",
            "3": "Albain"
          },
          "expansion": "Irish: Alba, Albain",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Irish: Alba, Albain"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gv",
            "2": "Nalbin"
          },
          "expansion": "Manx: Nalbin",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Manx: Nalbin"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gd",
            "2": "Alba"
          },
          "expansion": "Scottish Gaelic: Alba",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scottish Gaelic: Alba"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "*albiyū"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *albiyū",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "owl",
        "2": "elbid"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Welsh elbid",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Celtic *albiyū. Compare Old Welsh elbid.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Alban",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sga-decl-n-mf",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Albu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Albu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Albain",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Alban",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Albain",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Albu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Albu",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nAlbu",
      "source": "mutation"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "proper noun",
        "3": "genitive",
        "4": "Alban",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "Albu f (genitive Alban)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Albain",
        "2": "Alban",
        "g": "f",
        "n": "s"
      },
      "name": "sga-decl-n-mf"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "acc_du": "Albain+L",
        "acc_du2": "",
        "acc_du3": "",
        "acc_du4": "",
        "acc_pl": "Albuna+H",
        "acc_pl2": "",
        "acc_pl3": "",
        "acc_sg": "Albain+N",
        "acc_sg2": "",
        "acc_sg3": "",
        "acc_sg4": "",
        "acc_sg5": "",
        "class": "n-f",
        "dat_du": "Albunaib",
        "dat_du2": "",
        "dat_du3": "",
        "dat_pl": "Albunaib",
        "dat_pl2": "",
        "dat_pl3": "",
        "dat_sg": "Albain+L",
        "dat_sg2": "Albu+L",
        "dat_sg3": "",
        "dat_sg4": "",
        "dat_sg5": "",
        "dat_sg6": "",
        "gen_du": "Alban+L",
        "gen_du2": "",
        "gen_du3": "",
        "gen_pl": "Alban+N",
        "gen_pl2": "",
        "gen_pl3": "",
        "gen_sg": "Alban",
        "gen_sg2": "",
        "gen_sg3": "",
        "n": "s",
        "nom_du": "Albain+L",
        "nom_du2": "",
        "nom_du3": "",
        "nom_du4": "",
        "nom_pl": "Albain",
        "nom_pl2": "",
        "nom_pl3": "",
        "nom_sg": "Albu",
        "nom_sg2": "",
        "nom_sg3": "",
        "nom_sg4": "",
        "voc_du": "Albain+L",
        "voc_du2": "",
        "voc_du3": "",
        "voc_du4": "",
        "voc_pl": "Albuna+H",
        "voc_pl2": "",
        "voc_pl3": "",
        "voc_sg": "Albu",
        "voc_sg2": "",
        "voc_sg3": "",
        "voc_sg4": ""
      },
      "name": "sga-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old Irish",
  "lang_code": "sga",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "sga:Countries",
        "sga:Scotland"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Scotland (a country in Great Britain)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Scotland",
          "Scotland#English"
        ],
        [
          "Great Britain",
          "Great Britain#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "sga:Islands"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Britain (an island)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Britain",
          "Britain#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Bretain"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈalbu/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Albu"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Albu meaning in Old Irish (4.5kB)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.