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

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

Declension of Albannach (type I masculine noun)

^✝ 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

	Masculine	Feminine	Plural
Nominative	Albannach	Albannach	Albannach
Genitive	Albannaich	Albannaiche, Albannaich	Albannach
Dative	Albannach	Albannaich	Albannach
Vocative	Albannaich	Albannach	Albannach

Declension of Albannach (type I adjective)

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