shellan

Manx

Etymology

Perhaps from a variant form of Middle Irish teillenn (“swarm of bees”). Compare Irish seileán (“(wild) honey-bee”) and Scottish Gaelic seillean (“bee; heath or field-bee”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃelʲan/

Noun

shellan m (genitive singular shellan, plural shellanyn)

  1. bee

Derived terms

  • shellan breck
  • shellan cabbyl
  • shellan meay
  • shellan molley

Mutation

Mutation of shellan
radical lenition eclipsis
shellan hellan
after "yn", çhellan		 unchanged

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

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