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

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

Mutation

Mutation of sheel

radical	lenition	eclipsis
sheel	heel after "yn", çheel	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.