searbhanta

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish serbḟóntaid, serbóntaid (compare modern Irish searbhónta), based on Anglo-Norman servaunt.

Noun

searbhanta m or f (genitive singular searbhanta, plural searbhantan)

1. servant

   Synonym: seirbhiseach

Derived terms

• bana-shearbhanta (“(female) servant”)

Related terms

• seirbheis f (“service”)

Mutation

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

• 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