a los
Classical Gaelic
Etymology
The preposition a (“out of”) and los (“tail”). See also i los, ar los, Irish as los, ar los, de los, i los, and Scottish Gaelic los gun (“so that”), air los (“on account of”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a ˈlos/
Preposition
- as a result of, owing to
- early 17th c., Osborn Bergin, editor, Irish Bardic Poetry[1], published 1970, 42 The Empty School (Aonar dhamhsa eidir dhaoinibh), page 160:
- Beannocht leó a los a saoire / dronga ar nár cheisd cruadhlaoighe
- A blessing on them for their nobility, men to whom hard poems were no perplexity
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “los”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “los” in Léamh.org Glossary