seascair

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish sescar, sescair. Compare Scottish Gaelic seasgair.

Adjective

seascair (genitive singular masculine seascair, genitive singular feminine seascaire, plural seascaire, comparative seascaire)

1. snug, cosy, comfortably off

Declension

Declension of seascair

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	seascair	sheascair	seascaire; sheascaire2
vocative	sheascair		seascaire
genitive		seascaire	seascaire	seascair
dative	seascair; sheascair1	sheascair	seascaire; sheascaire2
Comparative	níos seascaire
Superlative	is seascaire

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of seascair

radical	lenition	eclipsis
seascair	sheascair after an, tseascair	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seascair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sescar, sescair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “seascair”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “seascair”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024