different between koss vs coss

English

Noun

koss (plural koss or kosses)

1. Alternative form of coss

Anagrams

• Soks

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse koss, from Proto-Germanic *kussaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??s?/
• Rhymes: -?s?

Noun

koss m (genitive singular koss, nominative plural kossar)

1. a kiss

Declension

Related terms

• kyssa

Norwegian Bokmål

Adverb

koss

1. (non-standard since 1959) alternative form of åssen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?s?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

koss f (definite singular kossa, indefinite plural kosser, definite plural kossene)

1. Alternative form of kòs

Noun

koss m or n (definite singular kossen or kosset, indefinite plural kossar or koss, definite plural kossane or kossa)

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Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?s?/ (example of pronunciation)

Adverb

koss

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by korleis

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kussaz, whence also Old English coss, Old Saxon kus, kos, Old High German kus.

Noun

koss m

1. kiss

Related terms

• kyssa

Descendants

Note: The continental Scandinavian forms with y have been altered by association with the verb kyssa.

References

• koss in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

English

Alternative forms

• koss

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi ??? (kos), from Sanskrit ????? (kró?a, “cry, yell; measure of distance”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

coss (plural cosses or coss)

1. (South Asia) A measure of distance, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘In Flood Time’, In Black and White, Folio Society 2005, pp. 410-11:

     A full half koss from bank to bank is the stream now – you can see it under the stars – and there are ten feet of water therein.

Anagrams

• CSOs, SCOs, Socs, socs

Old English

Alternative forms

• cos

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *koss, from Proto-Germanic *kussaz.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /koss/, [kos]

Noun

coss m

1. kiss

Declension

Derived terms

• cyssan

Descendants

• Middle English: cos, cus, kis, kys
  • English: kiss
  • Yola: kesse