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ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY
sound, musik; Eng. swear, answer, Got. svaran, swear; Lat. sermo, speech, Eng. sermon. The W. chwyrnu, hum, snort, is also allied.
seirsealach, robust (séirsealach, H.S.D.), Ir. séirsean, a strong person (O'R.); cf. searsanach for origin.
seis, one's match, a friend, sufficiency, Ir. seas, ship's seat, Lewis sis, bench, seat; cf. Norse sessi, bench-mate, oar-mate, from sessa, a ship's seat (I. E. root sed, sit).
seis, anything grateful to the senses, Ir. seis, pleasure, delight: *sved-ti-, root sveda, svâd, sweet; Gr. ἐδανός, sweet, ἠδúς (do.); Lat. suavis, sweet; Eng. sweet.
seis, anuas, the seat (Suth.):
seisd, a siege; formed from the Eng. siege.
seisean, session, assize, Ir. seisiún; from Lat. sessio, sessiônis, a sitting, session.
seisreach, a plough, six-horse plough, the six horses of a plough, Ir. seisreach, a plough of six horses, E. Ir. sesrech, plough team; from seiseir, six persons, a derivative of sè, six.
séist, the melody of a song, a ditty, M. Ir. séis, a musical strain: *sven-s-ti-, root sven, seinn.
seòc, seòcan, a helmet plume, a helmet; cf. Eng. shock.
seochlan, a feeble person; from the Sc. shochlin, waddling, infirm, shachlin, verb shachle, shuffle in walking, allied to Eng. shackle, shake.
seòd, siad, a hero, a jewel, Ir. seód, a jewel; see sud, jewel.
seòg, swing to and fro, dandle; from Sc. shog, M. Eng. shoggin, M.Du. shocken.
seòl, method, way, Ir. seól a method of doing a thing, seólaim, I direct, steer; E. Ir. seól, course; W. hwyl, course, condition. From seól, sail.
seòl, a sail Ir. seól, O. Ir. séol, seól, seol, g. siúil, W. hwyl, O. W. huil: usually referred to *seghlo- (root of seagh) or to Teutonic seglo-, sail (also from *seghlo-), borrowed into Celtic. In either case we should expect Ir. *sél, W. *hail, but we have neither. Strachan suggests that seól is formed from g. siúil on the analogy of ceól, etc.; while W. hwyl may have been effected by a borrow from Lat. vêlum (Cor. guil, Br. goel).
seòmar, a chamber, Ir. seómra, M. Ir. seomra; from M. Eng. and Fr. chambre, Lat. camera.
seòrsa, a sort, kind, Ir. sórt; from the Eng.
seot a short tail or stump, the worst beast, a sprout; from Sc. shot, rejected sheep ("shot" from shoot), shoot, stern of a boat, from the root of Eng. shoot. Cf. Norse skott, fox's tail,, skotta, dangle.
