Seumas

Seumas
Pronunciation	Scottish Gaelic: [ˈʃeːməs̪]
Gender	Masculine
Language(s)	Scottish Gaelic, Scots
Origin
Meaning	Jacob
Other names
Variant form(s)	Séamas (Irish)
Cognate(s)	Jacob, James, Seumas, Séamas, Séamus, Seamus
Derivative(s)	Hamish

Seumas Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈʃeːməs] is a masculine given name in Scottish Gaelic and Scots,^[1] equivalent to the English James.^[2] The vocative case of the Scottish Gaelic Seumas is Sheumais, which has given form to the Anglicised form of this name, Hamish.^[3] In Irish, Seumas is the older form of the modern Séamas. Another earlier form of Séamas is Séamus, which is partially Anglicised as Seamus.^[4]

List of people with the given name[]

Seumas McNally (1979–2000), a computer game programmer.
Seumas Milne (born 1958), a British journalist and political aide.
Seumas O'Kelly (c. 1875–1918), an Irish author and playwright.
Seumas O'Sullivan (1879–1958), an Irish poet and editor of The Dublin Magazine.

References[]

^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 136, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1
^ Bauer, Mìchael. Seumas in "Am Faclair Beag"
^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 404, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1
^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 356, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1

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[1] Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 136, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1

[afb-2] Bauer, Mìchael. Seumas in "Am Faclair Beag"

[3] Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 404, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1

[4] Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 356, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1

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