Etymograph

English

rosc

Rosc comes from Irish rosc ‘rhetorical composition’, and goes back to Old Irish rosc ‘short poem, ode’.

  1. Old Irishc. 600–900rosc‘short poem, ode’
  2. Irishc. 1200–presentrosc‘rhetorical composition’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1995rosc

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Old Irishc. 600–900rosc‘short poem, ode’
  2. Irishc. 1200–presentrosc‘rhetorical composition’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1995rosc

Earliest quotation: 1995, Calvert Watkins, How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics: “Liam Breatnach observed in an important article (Breatnach 1984,…”

Every English word from Old Irish rosc

Today it means

noun An ancient form of unrhymed Old Irish verse that uses alliteration and meter.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Old Irish rosc / rosc

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