seilche
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish seilche (“a shell-bearing animal or insect”).
Noun
seilche f (genitive singular seilche, plural seilchean)
- (folklore) a lake-dwelling water monster
- (dialectal) turtle, tortoise
- Synonym: turtar
Derived terms
- seilcheag (“snail”)
Further reading
- MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “seilche”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language