selch

Middle English

Noun

selch

1. (Early Scots) alternative form of sel (“pinniped”)

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Alternative forms

• silch, sulch

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Scots selch, from Early Scots selch, from Old English seolh, from Proto-West Germanic *selh, from Proto-Germanic *selhaz (compare North Frisian selich, Middle Low German sēl, Middle Dutch seel, Old High German selah, Old Norse selr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛlx/

Noun

selch (plural selchs)

1. grey seal (Halichoerus grypus)
2. common seal (Phoca vitulina)

Derived terms

• selkie (diminutive)

Further reading

• “selch”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.