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 [reason] that I used to do that, so that I might be like innocent ones

Declension

i-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cosmail	cosmail	cosmail
Vocative	cosmail
Accusative	cosmail	cosmail
Genitive	cosmail	cosmaile	cosmail
Dative	cosmail	cosmail	cosmail
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	cosmaili	cosmaili
Vocative	cosmaili
Accusative	cosmaili
Genitive	cosmail* cosmaile
Dative	cosmailib
Notes	*not when substantivized

Derived terms

• cosmailigidir
• cosmailius
• écsamail

 

Descendants

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

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cosmail	chosmail	cosmail pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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