cosc

• IPA^(key): /kɔsˠk/

From Old Irish cosc, from Proto-Celtic *komskʷom. Cognate with Welsh cosb (“punishment; restraint”).

cosc m (genitive singular coisc, as verbal noun coiscthe)

1. verbal noun of coisc
2. check, restraint; prevention, prohibition

(as regular noun):

(as verbal noun):

• coscadh m

• gan chosc (“unchecked, unrestrained”)
• gan chosc gan cheangal (“without let or hindrance”)

cosc (present analytic coscann, future analytic coscfaidh, verbal noun cosc, past participle cosctha)

1. Alternative form of coisc (“check, prevent”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cosc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• coscc

From Proto-Celtic *komskʷom. Cognate with Welsh cosb.

• IPA^(key):

cosc n (genitive coisc)

1. verbal noun of con·secha (“to correct”)
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 22^c10

     Is bés trá dosom aní-siu cosc inna mban i tossug et a tabairt fo chumacte a feir, armbat irlamu de ind ḟir fo chumacte Dǽi, co·mbí íarum coscitir ind ḟir et do·airbertar fo réir Dǽ.

     This, then, is a custom of his, to correct the wives at first and to bring them under the power of their husbands, so that the husbands may be the readier under God’s power, so that afterwards the husbands are corrected and bowed down in subjection to God.

2. wound caused by (physical) punishment

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