sclábhaí

• sclábh, sclábhuidhe (both obsolete)

From now obsolete sclábh (from Middle French sclave (“slave”), from Medieval Latin sclāvus (“slave”), Late Latin Sclāvus (“Slav”), from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos)) + -aí.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsˠklˠaːwi(ː)/^[1]

sclábhaí m (genitive singular sclábhaí, nominative plural sclábhaithe)

1. slave
2. laborer
3. hack, drudge

• bansclábhaí (“handmaid”)
• sclábhaíocht

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scláb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sclábuide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “scláḃaiḋe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 976; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “sclábhaí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “sclábhaí”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “sclábhaí”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026