seilche
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
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “seilche”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language