seilche
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish seilche (“shelled animal”), from Old Irish selige, from Proto-Indo-European *tsel- (“to sneak”), see also English steal, Old Armenian սողիմ (sołim, “to creep”).[1]
Noun
seilche f (genitive singular seilche, plural seilchean)
Derived terms
- seilcheag (“snail”)
References
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 900, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 900
Further reading
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “seilche”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “seilche”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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