searbhanta
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish serbḟóntaid, serbóntaid (compare modern Irish searbhónta), based on Anglo-Norman servaunt.
Noun
[edit]searbhanta m or f (genitive singular searbhanta, plural searbhantan)
- servant
- Synonym: seirbhiseach
Derived terms
[edit]- bana-shearbhanta (“(female) servant”)
Related terms
[edit]- seirbheis f (“service”)
Mutation
[edit]| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition |
| searbhanta | shearbhanta after "an", t-searbhanta |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “serb(ḟ)óntaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Middle Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic nouns
- Scottish Gaelic masculine nouns
- Scottish Gaelic feminine nouns
- Scottish Gaelic nouns with multiple genders
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