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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
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
seilche f (genitive singular seilche, plural seilchean)
- (folklore) a lake-dwelling water monster
- (dialectal) turtle, tortoise
- Synonym: turtar
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “seilche”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “seilche”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language