cosúil

Irish

Alternative forms

• cosmhail (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish cosmail.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kəˈsˠuːlʲ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔsˠuːlʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔsˠulʲ/

Adjective

cosúil (genitive singular masculine cosúil, genitive singular feminine cosúla, plural cosúla, comparative cosúla)

1. resembling, like (followed by le)

   Is cosúil lena athair é.

   He looks like his father.

Declension

Declension of cosúil

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	cosúil	chosúil	cosúla; chosúla²
Vocative	chosúil		cosúla
Genitive		cosúla	cosúla	cosúil
Dative	cosúil; chosúil¹	chosúil	cosúla; chosúla²
Comparative	níos cosúla
Superlative	is cosúla

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

• cosúlacht (“resemblance”)
• is cosúil go (“apparently”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cosúil	chosúil	gcosúil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cosúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 65