seirbheis
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish seirbís (compare Irish seirbhís), from Old French servise, from Latin servitium, from servus (“slave”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]seirbheis f (genitive singular seirbheise, plural seirbheisean)
Derived terms
[edit]- seirbheis chatharra f (“public service”)
- seirbheis nàiseanta f (“national service”)
Related terms
[edit]- searbhanta (“servant”)
Mutation
[edit]Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
seirbheis | sheirbheis after "an", t-seirbheis |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “seirbís”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language