gulban

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *gulbīnos, cognate to Welsh gylfin.

Noun

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gulban m

  1. 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 gulpanglosses Latin os turtoris ("turtledove's mouth")
  2. (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.

Inflection

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Masculine o-stem
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:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
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

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