seiche

See also: Seiche

English
WOTD – 11 March 2009

Etymology

From Swiss French seiche, perhaps from German Seiche (“sinking”).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /seɪʃ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /seɪʃ/, /sit͡ʃ/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪʃ

Noun

seiche (plural seiches)

  1. (hydrology) A short-term standing wave oscillation of the water level in a lake, characteristic of its geometry.

Translations

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin sēpia, from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía).

Noun

seiche f (plural seiches)

  1. cuttlefish

Etymology 2

From Swiss French, of uncertain origin. Possibly from German.

Noun

seiche f (plural seiches)

  1. (hydrology) seiche

Further reading

Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈʃɛçə/, [ˈʃɛi̯çə][1]

Noun

seiche f (genitive singular seiche, nominative plural seichí)

  1. Ulster form of seithe (“skin, hide”)

Declension
Declension of seiche

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative seiche seichí
Vocative a sheiche a sheichí
Genitive seiche seichí
Dative seiche seichí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tseiche na seichí
Genitive na seiche na seichí
Dative leis an tseiche

don tseiche

 leis na seichí

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
seiche sheiche
after an, tseiche		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 62

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sekess, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”) (compare Icelandic sigg (“callus, hard skin”)).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɕexʲə/

Noun

seiche f

  1. skin (of animal), hide

Descendants
  • Irish: seithe, seiche

Mutation
Middle Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
seicheunchangedunchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*sex-skā/i-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 331

Further reading

Norman

Etymology

From Latin sēpia, from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía).

Noun

seiche f (plural seiches)

  1. (Jersey) cuttlefish

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈʃeçə/

Noun

seiche f (genitive singular seiche, plural seichean or seicheannan)

  1. hide, skin, pelt (animal)

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
seichesheiche
after "an", t-seiche
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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