seilche

== 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”). === Noun === seilche f (genitive singular seilche, plural seilchean) (folklore) a lake-dwelling water monster (dialectal) turtle, tortoise Synonym: turtar ==== Derived terms ==== seilcheag (“snail”) === References === === Further reading === MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “seilche”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], 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