seiche

From Swiss French seiche, perhaps from German Seiche (“sinking”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /seɪʃ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /seɪʃ/, /sit͡ʃ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃ

seiche (plural seiches)

1. (hydrology) a short-term standing wave oscillation of the water level in a lake, characteristic of its geometry

• Eiches

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

From Latin sēpia, from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía).

seiche f (plural seiches)

1. cuttlefish

From Swiss French, of uncertain origin. Possibly from German.

seiche f (plural seiches)

1. (hydrology) seiche

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

• chiées

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛçə/, [ˈʃɛi̯çə][1]

seiche f (genitive singular seiche, nominative plural seichí)

1. Ulster form of seithe (“skin, hide”)

From Proto-Celtic *sekess, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”) (compare Icelandic sigg (“callus, hard skin”)).<ref>Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*sex-skā/i-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 331

• IPA^(key): /ˈɕexʲə/

seiche f

1. skin (of animal), hide

• Irish: seithe, seiche

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 seiche, seithe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Latin sēpia, from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía).

seiche f (plural seiches)

1. (Jersey) cuttlefish

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃeçə/

seiche f (genitive singular seiche, plural seichean or seicheannan)

1. hide, skin, pelt (animal)