Seumas

Seumas
Pronunciation	2. "shay-mas"
Gender	Masculine
Language(s)	1. Irish 2. Scottish Gaelic
Other names
Cognate(s)	James, Seumas, Séamas, Séamus, Seamus
Derivative(s)	Hamish

Seumas is a masculine given name in Irish, and Scottish Gaelic.^[1] The names are the equivalent of the English James. The Scottish Gaelic Seumas is pronounced "shay-mas".^[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. This modern name is pronounced "shay-mus" in Irish. 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 writer.
• Seamus O'Kelly, (c.1875-1918), an Irish author and playwright.
• Seumas O'Sullivan, (1879-1958), an Irish poet and editor of The Dublin Magazine.
• Seumas Slabinski, (born 1994), an Irish-American Sailor and philosopher.

References

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
2. Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 409, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1
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