different between costean vs costen

English

Etymology

From Cornish cothas (“dropped”) + stean (“tin”).

Verb

costean (third-person singular simple present costeans, present participle costeaning, simple past and past participle costeaned)

1. (mining) To search for lodes by sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, so as to cross all the veins between the two pits.

Related terms

• costeaning

Anagrams

• Acteons, Secotan, octanes

Spanish

Verb

costean

1. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of costear.
2. (used formally in Spain) Second-person plural present indicative form of costear.

English

Etymology

From Middle English costnien, from Old English costnian, subsidiary form of Old English costian (“to tempt, try, prove, examine”), from Proto-Germanic *kust?n? (“to try, taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ews- (“to enjoy, taste”). Cognate with German kosten (“to taste”). More at choose.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.s?n/

Verb

costen (third-person singular simple present costens, present participle costening, simple past and past participle costened)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To try; tempt.

Related terms

• cost
• costning

Anagrams

• Contés, Tecson, c notes, c-notes, centos, socnet

Catalan

Verb

costen

1. third-person plural present indicative form of costar