sheel

Manx

Etymology 1

From Old Irish síl (“seed”).

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

From Old Irish silid.

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

Derived terms

• aaheel (“redistill”)
• neuheelaght (“cloudiness (of liquid)”)
• neuheelys (“cloud (in liquid)”)
• yn-heel (“to infiltrate”)

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.