单词 | albanic |
释义 | Albanicadj. Now rare. Of or relating to Scotland or its people; Scottish. Esp. used in discussions of Celtic history, or in relation to the Gaelic language. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Scotland > [adjective] ScottisheOE Scots1346 Scotch1407 Albanian1565 Scotian1607 Caledonian1656 Albanic1789 tartan1954 1701 E. Wells Treat. Antient & Present Geogr. 59 Further it is commonly thought that from the aforemention'd names of Albin and Albinnich or Albanic, the said name of Albania antiently given to the North part of this Isle was deriv'd.] 1789 J. Pinkerton Enq. Hist. Scotl. II. iv. 64 George III descends from Conary through Riada, and the Scotish Albanic line. 1865 T. McLauchlan Early Sc. Church xvi. 208 The great convention at Drumceat in Ulster, where the question of Albanic independence was fully discussed. 1891 Jrnl. Anthropol. Instit. 20 166 The mh is silent both in modern Albanic and Irish Gaelic. 1913 R. C. Maclagan Our Ancestors xxiv. 291 Before the Albanic stone was taken to Westminster we know that the King's Bench was a large stone at the end of Westminster Hall. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1789 |
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