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

a los (plus genitive)

1. 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