seilide

Irish

Alternative forms

  • seilchide, seilmide, slimide

Etymology

From Middle Irish seilche (“snail”), from Old Irish selige (“animal with a shell”), from Proto-Indo-European *tsel- (“to sneak”), see also English steal, Old Armenian սողիմ (sołim, “to creep”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃɛlʲədʲə/

Noun

seilide m (genitive singular seilide, nominative plural seilidí)

  1. snail, slug (any animal of the class Gastropoda with or without a shell)

Declension

Declension of seilide (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative seilide seilidí
vocative a sheilide a sheilidí
genitive seilide seilidí
dative seilide seilidí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an seilide na seilidí
genitive an tseilide na seilidí
dative leis an seilide
don seilide 		leis na seilidí

Derived terms

  • seilide drúchta (“slug”)
  • seilide garraí (“garden snail”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of seilide
radical lenition eclipsis
seilide sheilide
after an, tseilide 		not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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

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