seileach

Irish

Etymology

From seile +‎ -ach.

Adjective

seileach (genitive singular masculine seiligh, genitive singular feminine seilí, plural seileacha, not comparable)

1. salivary

   Synonym: seileogach

Declension

Declension of seileach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	seileach	sheileach	seileacha; sheileacha2
vocative	sheiligh		seileacha
genitive		seilí	seileacha	seileach
dative	seileach; sheileach1	sheileach; sheiligh (archaic)	seileacha; sheileacha2
Comparative	(not comparable)
Superlative	(not comparable)

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

• faireog sheileach (“salivary gland”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of seileach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
seileach	sheileach after an, tseileach	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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seileach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “seileach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “seileach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish sailech (“willow”) (compare Irish saileach), from Proto-Celtic *salixs (compare Welsh helyg), from Proto-Indo-European *sl̥H-ik- (“willow”) (compare Latin salix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃeləx/

Noun

seileach m (genitive singular seilich, plural seilichean or seilich)

1. willow

Derived terms

• seileach an t-sléibhe
• seileach an t-srutha
• seileach an t-srutha òir
• seileach an t-srutha Sìneach
• seileach na duilleige duirche
• seileach-Ailpeach
• seileach-almoin
• seileach-bàn
• seileach-brisg
• seileach-clòimheach
• seileach-cluasach
• seileach-clùimhteach
• seileach-corcarach
• seileach-dearg
• seileach-Frangach
• seileach-geal
• seileach-labhrais
• seileach-làir
• seileach-lann
• seileach-liath
• seileach-lìonanach
• seileach-miortail
• seileach-olach
• seileach-ruadh
• seileach-tuathach
• seileach-uisge

 

Related terms

• ceann-dubhag an t-seilich

Mutation

Mutation of seileach

radical	lenition
seileach	sheileach after "an", t-seileach

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

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “seileach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sailech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language