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

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
seirbhiseach	sheirbhiseach after "an", t-seirbhiseach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “seirbísech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language