Alb

• Alp

• IPA^(key): /alp/

From Middle High German alb, alp, from Old High German alp, from Proto-West Germanic *albi, from Proto-Germanic *albiz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós. Doublet of Elf, borrowed from English later.

Alb m (mixed, genitive Albs or Albes, plural Alben)

2. (Germanic mythology) elf, especially an evil one

   Synonyms: Elf, Elb, Elbe

Alb m (strong, genitive Albs or Albes, plural Albe)

2. (Germanic folklore) creature that sits on one's chest while one sleeps
4. nightmare (formerly believed to be caused by such a creature)
6. (figurative, higher register) mental oppression, anxiety

• The spelling Alb has been the prescribed spelling since the German spelling reform of 1996 (the Rechtschreibreform).
• The spelling Alb has been an optional spelling since the German spelling reform of 1996 (the Rechtschreibreform) as of 2006.

• Albdruck
• Alberich
• Albtraum

Borrowed from Alemannic German Alp, from Middle High German albe, from Old High German alba.

Alb f (genitive Alb, plural Alben)

1. (regional) mountainous area, upland

   Schwäbische Alb ― Swabian Jura

• Thyen, Olaf (and Michael Clark, Werner Scholze-Stubenrecht, Bradbury Sykes (1999) The Oxford-Duden German Dictionary: German-English, English-German‎^[1], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 71: “Alb² .. (veralt.: Kobold) goblin believed to give sleeping people nightmares..”
• Thode, Ernest (1992) German-English Genealogical Dictionary‎^[2], Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 9: “Alb - mountain; hill; ridge; escarpment; upland area..”
• Betterridge, Harold T. (1978) Cassell's German-English English-German Dictionary, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 9: “¹Alb 1. elf, .. 2. nighmare. ²Alb (dial.) alp(s)..”

• “Alb” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Alb (Gebirge)” in Duden online
• “Alb (Last, Bedrückung, Wesen)” in Duden online
• “Alb (Naturgeist)” in Duden online

From alb.

Alb m (genitive/dative lui Alb)

1. a surname