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): /ˈʃɛlʲan/

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.