different between kast vs kist

English

Etymology

From Dutch kast, from Middle Dutch caste (“chest”), from Old Dutch *casto (“chest, reservoir”), from Proto-West Germanic *kast?.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æst

Noun

kast (plural kasts or kasten)

1. A type of traditional cupboard produced by Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries

Anagrams

• AKST, askt, kats, skat, task

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse kast, verbal noun to kasta (“throw”).

Noun

kast n (singular definite kastet, plural indefinite kast)

1. throw

Declension

Related terms

• give sig i kast med
• opkast
• indkast
• udkast

Verb

kast

1. imperative of kaste

References

• “kast” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch caste (“chest”), from Old Dutch *casto, from Proto-West Germanic *kast? (“chest, reservoir”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?st/
• Hyphenation: kast
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

kast f (plural kasten, diminutive kastje n)

1. cupboard, closet, wardrobe

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kas
• ? Indonesian: kas
  • ? Ternate: kas
• ? Papiamentu: kashi (from the diminutive)
• ? Sranan Tongo: kasi

Anagrams

• stak

Estonian

Noun

kast (genitive kasti, partitive kasti)

1. box, chest, crate

Declension

Hungarian

Etymology

kas +? -t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k??t]
• Hyphenation: kast

Noun

kast

1. accusative singular of kas

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse kast, verbal noun to kasta (“throw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?ast/
• Rhymes: -ast

Noun

kast n (genitive singular kasts, nominative plural köst)

1. throw
2. fit, seizure

Declension

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) kastõ

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kastadak.

Verb

kast

1. water
2. wet

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kast

Noun

kast n (definite singular kastet, indefinite plural kast, definite plural kasta or kastene)

1. throw

Derived terms

Related terms

• kaste (verb)

Etymology 2

Verb

kast

1. imperative of kaste

References

• “kast” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse kast

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?st/

Noun

kast n (definite singular kastet, indefinite plural kast, definite plural kasta)

1. throw (act of throwing something)

Derived terms

Verb

kast

1. imperative of kasta and kaste

References

• “kast” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse kast, verbal noun to kasta (“throw”).

Pronunciation

Noun

kast n or c

1. throw; the flight of a thrown object
2. caste; an Indian hereditary social class

Declension

Derived terms

• uppkast
• nedkast
• inkast
• utkast

See also

• kasta

Anagrams

• akts, taks

English

Etymology 1

Verb

kist

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of kiss
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, The Pomander Bracelet,

     To me my Julia lately sent
     A Bracelet richly Redolent
     The Beads I kist, but most lov'd her
     That did perfume the Pomander.

Etymology 2

Possibly from Old Norse kista (chest); but see also cist (“crypt”).

Noun

kist (plural kists)

1. (Scotland) A chest.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 17:

     the spear he killed the gryphon with was locked in a kist there, or so some said […]

2. (Scotland) A coffin.

Verb

kist (third-person singular simple present kists, present participle kisting, simple past and past participle kisted)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To place in a coffin.

Derived terms

• kist o' whistles

Anagrams

• kits, skit, tisk

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?st/
• Hyphenation: kist
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch kiste, from Old Dutch *kista, from Proto-West Germanic *kistu, from Latin cista, from Ancient Greek ????? (kíst?), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh?.

Noun

kist f or m (plural kisten, diminutive kistje n)

1. A box, chest.

   Synonym: koffer

2. A coffin.

   Synonyms: doodskist, lijkkist

3. (aviation, informal) An aeroplane.
4. (informal) A boot or large shoe, especially an army boot.

Derived terms

• kisten (verb)

- chest types

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kis
• ? Sranan Tongo: kisi

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

kist

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of kisten
2. imperative of kisten

Anagrams

• stik

Middle English

Noun

kist

1. A Alternative form of cheste (“chest”).

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ????? (kist?)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kîst/

Noun

k?st m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. A brush.

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French kyste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?cist/
• Hyphenation: kist

Noun

kist (definite accusative kisti, plural kistler)

1. (medicine) A cyst.

Declension