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

Mutation of sìobhalta

radical	lenition
sìobhalta	shìobhalta after "an", t-sìobhalta

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), “síbíalta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language