seirbhiseach

See also: seirbhíseach

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish seirbísech (“auxiliary, ancillary; a servant, an agent”) (compare Irish seirbhíseach). By surface analysis, seirbheis (“service”) +‎ -ach.

Noun

seirbhiseach m (genitive singular seirbhisich, plural seirbhisich)

1. servant

Mutation

Mutation of seirbhiseach

radical	lenition
seirbhiseach	sheirbhiseach after "an", t-seirbhiseach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “seirbísech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language