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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
seascair	sheascair after an, tseascair	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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