cosúil
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- cosmhail (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cosúil (genitive singular masculine cosúil, genitive singular feminine cosúla, plural cosúla, comparative cosúla)
- resembling, like (followed by le)
- Is cosúil lena athair é.
- He looks like his father.
Declension
[edit]Declension of cosúil
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | 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
[edit]- cosúlacht (“resemblance”)
- is cosúil go (“apparently”)
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| cosúil | chosúil | gcosúil |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cosúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 65
