shellan

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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

Noun

shellan m (genitive singular shellan, plural shellanyn)

  1. bee

Derived terms

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.
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