seilche
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Scottish Gaelic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
seilche f (genitive singular seilche, plural seilchean)
Derived terms[edit]
- seilcheag (“snail”)
References[edit]
- ^ 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[edit]
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “seilche”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “seilche”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Middle Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic nouns
- Scottish Gaelic feminine nouns
- gd:Folklore
- Scottish Gaelic dialectal terms