koss
English
editNoun
editkoss (plural koss or kosses)
- Alternative spelling of coss.
Anagrams
editIcelandic
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse koss, from Proto-Germanic *kussaz.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkoss m (genitive singular koss, nominative plural kossar)
- a kiss
Declension
editdeclension of koss
Related terms
editNorwegian Bokmål
editAdverb
editkoss
- (non-standard since 1959) alternative form of åssen
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology 1
editPronunciation
editNoun
editkoss f (definite singular kossa, indefinite plural kosser, definite plural kossene)
- Alternative form of kòs
Noun
editkoss m or n (definite singular kossen or kosset, indefinite plural kossar or koss, definite plural kossane or kossa)
Etymology 2
editFrom Old Norse hvorsu, hversu. Cognate with Faroese hvussu and Norwegian Bokmål åssen.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editkoss
- (pre-2012) alternative form of korleis
- 1988, Sveinung Time, Arne Garborg om seg sjølv [Arne Garborg about himself]:
- Og kóss skulde eg koma til Arabia, når eg kunde korkje tysk eller arabisk mål?
- And how was I to get to Arabia, when I knew neither German nor Arabic speech?
- 1905, Ivar Mortensson-Egnund, Edda-kvæde [Edda Poems]:
- Koss er med åsom, koss er med alvom?
- How goes it with the Æsir, how goes it with the elves?
References
editOld Norse
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *kussaz, whence also Old English coss, Old Saxon kus, kos, Old High German kus.
Noun
editkoss m
Related terms
editDescendants
editNote: The continental Scandinavian forms with y have been altered by association with the verb kyssa.
References
edit- “koss”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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