selkie
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Scots selkie fowk (“seal folk”).
Noun[edit]
selkie (plural selkies)
Translations[edit]
mythological creature
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Anagrams[edit]
Scots[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
selkie (plural selkies)
- Diminutive of selch (“common seal, grey seal”)
Derived terms[edit]
- silkie man (“male selkie”, literally “male seal”)
- selkie-wife (“female selkie, mermaid”, literally “female seal”)
- selkie fowk (“selkie”, literally “seal people”)
Further reading[edit]
- “selch” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- "selkie" in The Orkney Dictionary, 1996, by Margaret Flaws and Gregor Lamb.
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- English terms borrowed from Scots
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
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- en:Celtic mythology
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- en:Phocid seals
- en:Shapeshifters
- Scots terms suffixed with -ie
- Scots lemmas
- Scots nouns
- Scots diminutive nouns
- Scots 2-syllable words
- sco:Phocid seals