koss
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
koss (plural koss or kosses)
- Alternative form of coss
Anagrams[edit]
Icelandic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse koss, from Proto-Germanic *kussaz.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
koss m (genitive singular koss, nominative plural kossar)
- a kiss
Declension[edit]
declension of koss
Related terms[edit]
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Adverb[edit]
koss
- (non-standard since 1959) alternative form of åssen
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
koss f (definite singular kossa, indefinite plural kosser, definite plural kossene)
- Alternative form of kòs
Noun[edit]
koss m or n (definite singular kossen or kosset, indefinite plural kossar or koss, definite plural kossane or kossa)
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Norse hvorsu, hversu. Cognate with Faroese hvussu and Norwegian Bokmål åssen.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
koss
- (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[edit]
- “koss”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
- “koss” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
- “korso” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *kussaz, whence also Old English coss, Old Saxon kus, kos, Old High German kus.
Noun[edit]
koss m
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Note: 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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