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

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