Albiones

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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]

Proper noun[edit]

Albionēs m pl (genitive Albionum); third declension

  1. 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]

References[edit]

  • Albiones in Falileyev, Alexander (1997). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names, Aberystwyth University.
  1. ^ Cf. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 29.