different between kist vs kits

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?ts/

Noun

kits

1. plural of kit

Verb

kits

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kit

Anagrams

• Kist, kist, skit, tisk

Danish

Noun

kits n

1. indefinite plural of kit
2. indefinite genitive singular of kit
3. indefinite genitive plural of kit

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?ts/
• Hyphenation: kits
• Rhymes: -?ts

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English ketch.

Noun

kits f (plural kitsen, diminutive kitsje n)

1. ketch (small two-masted vessel)

Alternative forms

• kets (obsolete)

Derived terms

• bombardeerkits
• bomkits

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

kits (used only predicatively, not comparable)

1. (colloquial) in order, okay

Derived terms

• alles kits

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

kits

1. Plural form of kit

Estonian

Etymology

From German Kitz.

Noun

kits (genitive kitse, partitive kitse)

1. goat
2. roe deer (Capreolus)
3. (colloquial) snitch

Inflection

Compounds

• metskits
• kodukits

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kits/, [?kit?s]

Noun

kits

1. plural of kit