selkie-wife

Scots edit

Alternative forms edit

selkie wife

Etymology edit

selkie (“grey seal, common seal”) +‎ wife (“woman; wife”)

Noun edit

selkie-wife (plural selkie-wifes)

a female selkie; mermaid

Further reading edit

“selch” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

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