Albertan

Part of speech: noun, adjective

Definitions

1. A person who is born in or lives in Alberta, the western Canadian province known for its oil industry and Rocky Mountain scenery
2. Someone from Alberta, one of the ten provinces of Canada, situated between British Columbia and Saskatchewan
3. A native or resident of the Canadian province of Alberta, located in the western part of the country on the prairies

Etymology: Alberta is named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria, whose name itself traces back to Albert, a Germanic name. The root is Old English "Æþelbeorht", meaning roughly "noble and bright", which passed into Latin as "Albertus" and then into Old French and English as "Albert". Canada's province took its name from the princess, a daughter of Victoria, and the adjective and noun "Albertan" were formed simply by adding the suffix "-n" to "Alberta", as a regular way of naming a resident of a place. The name's roots are older than the province by many centuries. Its first element, "Æthel-", means noble, and its second, "-beorht", means bright, so a name that once praised a person's nobility and brilliance became, through a royal naming, a label for people from a prairie province.