seasgair
Scottish Gaelic
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Irish sescar, sescair. Compare Irish seascair.
Adjective
editseasgair
- at ease, in easy circumstances, quiet, comfortable
- snug, warm and dry, cosy
- sheltered, protected
- soft, effeminate
- (weather) settled, still, calm
Derived terms
editNoun
editseasgair m (genitive singular seasgair, plural seasgairean)
- one in comfortable circumstances, cosy person
- lazy person
- effeminate person
- shelter
- one who threshes corn by the bulk
Mutation
editScottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
seascair | sheascair after "an", t-seascair |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sescar, sescair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language