Albannach
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish Albanach, equivalent to Alba (“Scotland”) + -ach. Cognate with Irish Albanach and Manx Albinagh.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Albannach m (genitive singular Albannaich, plural Albannaich)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Albannach (type I masculine noun)
Indefinite | ||
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Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | Albannach | Albannaich |
Genitive | Albannaich | Albannach |
Dative | Albannach | Albannaich; Albannachaibh✝ |
Definite | ||
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | (an) t-Albannach | (na) h-Albannaich |
Genitive | (an) Albannaich | (nan) Albannach |
Dative | (an) Albannach | (na) h-Albannaich; h-Albannachaibh✝ |
Vocative | Albannaich | Albannacha |
✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
Adjective
[edit]Albannach (genitive singular masculine Albannaich, genitive singular feminine Albannaiche or Albannaich, nominative plural Albannach)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Albannach (type I adjective)
Masculine | Feminine | Plural | |
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Nominative | Albannach | Albannach | Albannach |
Genitive | Albannaich | Albannaiche, Albannaich | Albannach |
Dative | Albannach | Albannaich | Albannach |
Vocative | Albannaich | Albannach | Albannach |
Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Scottish Gaelic mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
Albannach | nAlbannach | h-Albannach | tAlbannach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Colin Mark (2003) “Albannach”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 32
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Albanach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Middle Irish
- Scottish Gaelic adjectives suffixed with -ach
- Scottish Gaelic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic nouns
- Scottish Gaelic masculine nouns
- Scottish Gaelic nouns suffixed with -ach
- Scottish Gaelic first-declension nouns
- Scottish Gaelic adjectives
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