fo chosmailius

Old Irish

Etymology

Literally ‘under the likeness of’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɸo ˈxosβ̃ɨlʲus]

Preposition

fo chosmailius (with genitive)

1. like (similar to), after the manner of
   • 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. 62^b20

     a n-imbed són ind slóig do·lega na ní téte, fo chosmailius dílenn

     the abundance of the army which destroys whatever it comes to, like a deluge

Conjunction

fo chosmailius

1. like, as

Further reading

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