Albannach

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish Albanach, equivalent to Alba (“Scotland”) +‎ -ach. Cognate with Irish Albanach and Manx Albinagh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal̪ˠapən̪ˠəx/
• Hyphenation: Al‧ban‧nach

Noun

Albannach m (genitive singular Albannaich, plural Albannaich)

1. Scot, Scotsman

Declension

Declension of Albannach (type I masculine noun)

indefinite
	singular	plural
nominative	Albannach	Albannaich
genitive	Albannaich	Albannach
dative	Albannach	Albannaich; Albannachaibh✝
definite
	singular	plural
nominative	(an) t-Albannach	(na) h-Albannaich
genitive	(an) Albannaich	(nan) Albannach
dative	(an) Albannach	(na) h-Albannaich; h-Albannachaibh✝
vocative	Albannaich	Albannacha

^✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Adjective

Albannach (genitive singular masculine Albannaich, genitive singular feminine Albannaiche or Albannaich, nominative plural Albannach)

1. Scottish

Declension

Declension of Albannach (type I adjective)

	masculine	feminine	plural
nominative	Albannach	Albannach	Albannach
genitive	Albannaich	Albannaiche, Albannaich	Albannach
dative	Albannach	Albannaich	Albannach
vocative	Albannaich	Albannach	Albannach

Derived terms

• brot Albannach

Mutation

Mutation of Albannach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
Albannach	nAlbannach	h-Albannach	tAlbannach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Colin Mark (2003) “Albannach”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 32
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Albanach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language