cosmail

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• cosmil, cosmuil, cossmail

Etymology

From com- +‎ samail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkos.β̃əlʲ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈkos.β̃ɪlʲ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈkos.β̃ɨlʲ]

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

*not when substantivized

Derived terms

• cosmailigidir
• cosmailius
• écsamail

Descendants

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

Mutation

Mutation of cosmail

radical	lenition	nasalization
cosmail	chosmail	cosmail pronounced with /ɡ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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