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kelpie

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Australian kelpie

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Possibly fromScottish Gaeliccailpeach orcolpach, meaning "colt".(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

The dog breed derives from the name shared by the first two breeding bitches (dam and pup), which in turn derives from the mythological spirit.

kelpie (pluralkelpies)

(Celtic mythology) A malevolentshapeshifting spirit, most often in the form of ahorse, believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland.
- 1828, James Hogg,The Brownie of the Black Haggs:
  He was a boy in form, and an antediluvian in feature. Some thought he was a mule, between a Jew and an ape; some a wizard, some akelpie, or a fairy, but most of all, that he was really and truly a Brownie.
AnAustralian breed ofsheepdog.
- 1979,Thea Astley,Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page28:
  There was no sound but the endless noise of forest and river, and the sleep-whimper of hiskelpie.
- 1993,Tim Winton,Land's Edge, Picador, published2014, page 4:
  Gulls scatter before the blur of my insanekelpie.