kista
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse kista, via Old English from Latin cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē).
Pronunciation
Noun
kista f (genitive singular kistu, nominative plural kistur)
Declension
declension of kista
Synonyms
- (coffin): líkkista
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Indonesian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis).
Pronunciation
Noun
kista (first-person possessive kistaku, second-person possessive kistamu, third-person possessive kistanya)
Alternative forms
Further reading
- “kista” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- kisten m
Noun
kista f
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
kista f
Old Norse
Etymology
From Latin cista, itself from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē).
Noun
kista f
Declension
Declension of kista (weak ōn-stem)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “kista”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Swedish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
kista c
- box, chest
- casket, coffin
- sista spiken i kistan
- last nail in the coffin
- sista spiken i kistan
- (slang) stomach
- Äta myror? — Ha ha, det är världens käk. Kittlar dödsskönt i kistan!
- You eat ants? — You better believe it. And you're gonna love the way they tickle. (Mowgli and Baloo, The Jungle Book, 1967)
- Äta myror? — Ha ha, det är världens käk. Kittlar dödsskönt i kistan!
Declension
Declension of kista | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | kista | kistan | kistor | kistorna |
Genitive | kistas | kistans | kistors | kistornas |
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