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

standing wave in a lake

• Catalan: seixa (ca)
• Faroese: rennisjógvur m
• Finnish: seiche-ilmiö
• German: Seiche (de) f
• Hungarian: tólengés
• Italian: secca (it) f
• Japanese: 静振 (ja) (せいしん, seishin)
• Russian: сейш (ru) m (sejš), сейша (ru) f (sejša)
• Welsh: dygyfor llyn m, ymchwydd llyn m

Anagrams

• Eiches

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɛʃ
• Homophones: seiches, sèche, sèches, sèchent, Seix

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

• “seiche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• chiées

Irish

Pronunciation

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

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.

Middle Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɕexʲə/

Noun

seiche f

1. skin (of animal), hide

Descendants

• Irish: seithe, seiche

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
seiche	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 seiche, seithe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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
seiche	sheiche after "an", t-seiche
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.