Seumas Explained

Seumas
Pronunciation:	in Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic ˈʃeːməs̪/
Gender:	Masculine
Language:	Scottish Gaelic, Scots
Meaning:	Jacob
Variant:	Seumus
Cognate:	Jacob, James, Séamas, Séamus
Derivative:	Hamish

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

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.

Notes and References

1. Bauer, Mìchael. Seumas in "Am Faclair Beag"