Seklingar (Seychelles)

The islands were named after Jean Moreau de Séchelles, Louis XV’s Minister of Finance and the name is highly probably a derivation of sèche (dry). The Íslensk Orðsifjabók mentions a 17th century loan-word sekk (from French sec) for "sherry". The French diminutive suffix -elles can be translated by Icelandic -lingar. I propose Seklingar for the Seychelles, instead of Sekklingar though, for the purpose to avoid connotations with sekkur (sack). The addition of "eyjar" is not necessary, as the Scilly Islands at the toe of Great Britain were called Syllingar in Old Icelandic, and having a neoexonym sounding similar to an Old Icelandic exonym is always advantageous.