selige

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selige

1. inflection of selig:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

sēlige

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sēligō

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selige m

1. Any animal with a shell:
   1. (hapax legomenon) turtle, tortoise
      • c. 825–850 Karlsruhe Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 225–230, PCr. 24^a1

        selige ― glosses Latin testudo

• Middle Irish: seilche
  • Scottish Gaelic: seilche (“turtle”)
  • ⇒ Irish: seilide (“snail”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “seilche”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language