seiche
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English
Etymology
From Swiss French seiche, perhaps from German Seiche (“sinking”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /seɪʃ/
- (US) IPA(key): /seɪʃ/, /sit͡ʃ/
,Audio (US): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃ
Noun
seiche (plural seiches)
- (hydrology) A short-term standing wave oscillation of the water level in a lake, or other confined body of water such as a fjord, characteristic of its geometry.
- 2024 A rockslide-generated tsunami in a Greenland fjord rang Earth for 9 days. Science 2024 Vol 385, DOI: 10.1126/science.adm9247
- In September 2023, we detected the start of a 9-day-long, global . . . very-long-period seismic signal, originating from East Greenland. . . .this event started with a glacial thinning-induced rock-ice avalanche of 25 million cubic meters plunging into Dickson Fjord, triggering a 200-meter-high tsunami. Simulations show that the tsunami stabilized into a 7-meter-high long-duration seiche with a frequency. . .and slow amplitude decay that were nearly identical to the seismic signal. An oscillating, fjord-transverse single force . . . reproduced the seismic amplitudes and their radiation pattern relative to the fjord, demonstrating how a seiche directly caused the 9-day-long seismic signal.
- 2024 A rockslide-generated tsunami in a Greenland fjord rang Earth for 9 days. Science 2024 Vol 385, DOI: 10.1126/science.adm9247
Translations
standing wave in a lake
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Latin sēpia, from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía).
Noun
seiche f (plural seiches)
Etymology 2
From Swiss French, of uncertain origin. Possibly from German.
Noun
seiche f (plural seiches)
Further reading
- “seiche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Anagrams
Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
seiche f (genitive singular seiche, nominative plural seichí)
Declension
Declension of seiche
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| seiche | sheiche after an, tseiche |
not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 161, page 62
Middle Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *sekess, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”) (compare Icelandic sigg (“callus, hard skin”)).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
seiche f
Descendants
Mutation
| Middle Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| seiche | unchanged | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*sex-skā/i-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 331
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 seiche, seithe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Norman
Etymology
From Latin sēpia, from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía).
Noun
seiche f (plural seiches)
Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
Noun
seiche f (genitive singular seiche, plural seichean or seicheannan)
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition |
| seiche | sheiche after "an", t-seiche |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |