shellan

Manx

Etymology

Perhaps from a variant form of Middle Irish teillenn (“swarm of bees”). Compare Irish seileán (“(wild) honey-bee”) and Scottish Gaelic seillean (“bee; heath or field-bee”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛlʲan/

Noun

shellan m (genitive singular shellan, plural shellanyn)

1. bee

Derived terms

• shellan breck
• shellan cabbyl
• shellan meay
• shellan molley

 

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
shellan	hellan after "yn", çhellan	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.