gulbia

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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

  1. (Late Latin) piercer, chisel

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Synonyms

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Descendants

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

References

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  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 (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 366-367
  3. ^ gubia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.