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sheel

sheel

Manx

Noun

sheel m (genitive singular sheel, plural sheelyn)

  1. (botany) seed, pip, oats
  2. (cytology) sperm, spunk
  3. issue, offspring, lineage
Derived terms
  • sheelag (seedling)

Etymology 2

Verb

sheel (verbal noun sheeley, past participle sheelit)

  1. drip, trickle, dribble, seep, ooze, flow, run, gravitate
  2. percolate, leach, distil, extract, refine, instill, strain (off), filter, clear (of liquid), clarify (honey), drain
  3. (medicine) discharge, weep (of sore)
  4. draw (off)
  5. soil (as milk)
  6. gutter (of candle)
Derived terms

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sheel heel
after "yn", çheel
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.