sìobhalta

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish síbíalta (“civil”) (compare modern Irish sibhialta), from Middle English civil or Old French civil (+ -ta).

Adjective

sìobhalta

1. civil, civilian

   Synonym: catharra

Related terms

• sìobhaltachd

Mutation

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

Further reading

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