gulbia

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish *gulbiā, from Proto-Celtic *gulb- (whence also the further suffixed *gulbīnos (“beak, bill”); compare Middle Irish gulba (“beak, jaw”), Welsh gylfin (“beak”)), probably of non-Indo-European origin, and not related to Proto-Indo-European *gelbʰ- (“to flay, scrape”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

gulbia f (genitive gulbiae); first declension[3]

  1. (Late Latin) piercer, chisel

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative gulbia gulbiae
genitive gulbiae gulbiārum
dative gulbiae gulbiīs
accusative gulbiam gulbiās
ablative gulbiā gulbiīs
vocative gulbia gulbiae

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Galician: gubia
  • Italian: gorbia
  • Old French: gouge
  • Spanish: gubia

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gulbV-, *gulbīno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 168-169
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “gelebh-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 366-367
  3. ^ gubia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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