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

Mutation of searbhanta

radical	lenition
searbhanta	shearbhanta after "an", t-searbhanta

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), “serb(ḟ)óntaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language