cosmail

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• cosmil, cosmuil, cossmail

Etymology

From com- +‎ samail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkosṽil/

Adjective

cosmail

1. like, alike, similar (+ fri (“to”))
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 91^b7

     is dó du·gníinn-se anísin, combin cosmail fri encu

     It is for that that I used to do that, so that I might be like innocent ones

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Irish: cosúil
• Manx: cosoyl
• Scottish Gaelic: cosail

Mutation

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cosmail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language