is maith la

== Old Irish == === Etymology === Literally ‘X is good with Y’ for ‘Y likes X’. === Verb === is maith la to like c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 20c21 ==== Usage notes ==== The person doing the liking is expressed as the object of la, while the person, object, or activity liked is expressed as the subject of the sentence (coming at the end by the normal rules of Old Irish syntax). The word is can omitted from this idiom. ==== Descendants ==== Irish: is maith le Scottish Gaelic: is math le