Etymology

selkie

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Today it means: A seal which can magically transform into a human by shedding its skin. Full definition →

Scots selkie fowk
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The story

  1. Scots · borrowed fromselkie fowk“seal folk”
  2. English todayselkie

From Scots selkie fowk (“seal folk”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.