cosúil

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish cosmail.[2]

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

  1. resembling, like [with le]
    Is cosúil lena athair é.
    He looks like his father.

Declension

Declension of cosúil
Positive singular plural
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

Mutated forms of cosúil
radical lenition eclipsis
cosúil chosúil gcosúil

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

References

  1. ^ “cosúil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cosmail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938) Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Description of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, section 57, page 47
  4. ^ Breatnach, Risteard B. (1947) The Irish of Ring, Co. Waterford: A Phonetic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 464, page 124
  5. ^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht [The Irish of Cois Fharraige: Accidence] (in Irish), 2nd edition, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath [Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies], section 205.12, page 99
  6. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 162
  7. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 172, page 65

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