seirbheis

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish seirbís (compare Irish seirbhís), from Old French servise, from Latin servitium, from servus (“slave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃeɾʲevɪʃ/

Noun

seirbheis f (genitive singular seirbheise, plural seirbheisean)

1. service

Derived terms

• seirbheis chatharra f (“public service”)
• seirbheis nàiseanta f (“national service”)

Related terms

• searbhanta (“servant”)

Mutation

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

References

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