seilide

Irish

seilide

Alternative forms

• seilchide, seilmide, slimide

Etymology

From Middle Irish seilche (“snail”), from Old Irish selige (“animal with a shell”), from Proto-Indo-European *tsel- (“to sneak”), see also English steal, Old Armenian սողիմ (sołim, “to creep”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛlʲədʲə/

Noun

seilide m (genitive singular seilide, nominative plural seilidí)

1. snail, slug (any animal of the class Gastropoda with or without a shell)

Declension

Declension of seilide

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative seilide seilidí Vocative a sheilide a sheilidí Genitive seilide seilidí Dative seilide seilidí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an seilide na seilidí Genitive an tseilide na seilidí Dative leis an seilide don seilide leis na seilidí

Derived terms

• seilide drúchta (“slug”)
• seilide garraí (“garden snail”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
seilide	sheilide after an, tseilide	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seilide”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “seilide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “seilide”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “seilide”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024