selkie

• silkie

From Scots selkie fowk (“seal folk”).

selkie (plural selkies)

1. (Celtic mythology) A seal which can magically transform into a human by shedding its skin.

• Lieske

• saelkie, selky, seilkie, sejlki, shelky, silkey, silkie, sulky
• sylkie (Shetland)

selch +‎ -ie

selkie (plural selkies)

1. Diminutive of selch (“common seal, grey seal”)

• silkie man (“male selkie”, literally “male seal”)
• selkie-wife (“female selkie, mermaid”, literally “female seal”)
• selkie fowk (“selkie”, literally “seal people”)

• “selch” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• "selkie" in The Orkney Dictionary, 1996, by Margaret Flaws and Gregor Lamb.