cosnaim
Definitions (by source)
‘I maintain’, ‘protect’; indic. pres. 3 sg. rel. chosnas 49.13; vb. n. cosnadh 35.12, 42.14; cosnamh 44.17
Aibidil Gaoidheilge & Caiticiosma: Seaán Ó Cearnaigh's Irish primer of religion, published in 1571. Editor: Brian Ó Cuív.
[EC cosnamh], perf. do chosain; fut. coiseonadh, -éanad, cosainfead, ní chosnabh; subj. cosnar; c. (I conquer, hold firmly) tír 1 7, 31 31, 33, 38 39; vn. cosnamh [47] 31 33.
Aithdioghluim Dána: A Miscellany of Irish Bardic Poetry, Historical and Religious, including the Historical Poems of the Duanaire in the Yellow Book of Lecan. Vol II, Translations, Notes, Vocabulary. Editor: Lambert McKenna S.J.
(ar) I defend (against), 720, 3063; ainm br. cosnamh 1476, 2167, 2168.
An Teagasg Críosdaidhe. Editor: Fearghal Mac Raghnaill, O.F.M.
I protect. Fut. 2 sg. Coiseónaidh thú, 121. v.n. cosnamh, q.v.
Poems on the O'Reillys. Editor: James Carney.