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