cosmail
Old Irish
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- 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. 91b7
- 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
- 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. 91b7
Declension
editi-stem | |||
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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
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editMutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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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
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cosmail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language