seilche

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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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

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seilche f (genitive singular seilche, plural seilchean)

  1. (folklore) a lake-dwelling water monster
  2. (dialectal) turtle, tortoise
    Synonym: turtar

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “900”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 900

Further reading

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