gulban

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• gulpan

Etymology

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

Noun

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 gulpan ― glosses 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. 122^b8

     .i. inna guilbniu .i. inna fochaide 7 inna ndígal.

     i.e. the stings, i.e. of tribulations and punishments.

Inflection

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

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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gulban”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language