Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology
Pronounced: AL-vyə(Irish)
From Old Irish
Ailbe, possibly derived from the old Celtic root *
albiyo- "world, light, white" or Old Irish
ail "rock". In Irish legend this was the name of a female warrior of the Fianna. It was also the name of a 6th-century masculine
saint, the founder of a monastery at Emly.