seasgair

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• seasgar

Etymology

From Middle Irish sescar, sescair. Compare Irish seascair.

Adjective

seasgair

1. at ease, in easy circumstances, quiet, comfortable
2. snug, warm and dry, cosy
3. sheltered, protected
4. soft, effeminate
5. (weather) settled, still, calm

Derived terms

• cho seasgair ri luchag ann an cruach

Noun

seasgair m (genitive singular seasgair, plural seasgairean)

1. one in comfortable circumstances, cosy person
2. lazy person
3. effeminate person
4. shelter
5. one who threshes corn by the bulk

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sescar, sescair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language