fo chosmailius
Old Irish
Etymology
Literally ‘under the likeness of’.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fo ˈxosṽilʲus/
Preposition
fo chosmailius (with genitive)
- like (similar to), after the manner of
- c. 875, 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. 62b20
- 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
- c. 875, 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. 62b20
Conjunction
fo chosmailius
- like, as
Further reading
- C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “cosmailius”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN