selkie-wife

Scots

Alternative forms

• selkie wife

Etymology

selkie (“grey seal, common seal”) +‎ wife (“woman; wife”)

Noun

selkie-wife (plural selkie-wifes)

1. a female selkie; mermaid

Further reading

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