kös
See also: Appendix:Variations of "kos"
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse kös (“a heap, a pile”).[1] Compare the Nynorsk kos and kas and a dialectal Swedish kas,[1] possibly related to the Latin agger (“a rampart, a bulwark; a dam; a heap, a pile”), congeriēs (“a heap, a pile, a mass; a collection, an accumulation”) and gerō (“I carry, I bear”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰœːs/
- Rhymes: -œːs
Noun
kös f (genitive singular kasar, nominative plural kasir)
- a pile (e.g. of stones, blubber or the like)
- a heap of fish
- (computing) a heap; a large pool of unused memory whence dynamic memory is allocated[2]
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | kös | kösin | kasir | kasirnar |
| accusative | kös | kösina | kasir | kasirnar |
| dative | kös | kösinni | kösum | kösunum |
| genitive | kasar | kasarinnar | kasa | kasanna |
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
- ^ kös
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Icelandic Web of Science: Hvað er þetta 'kas' þegar konur eru kasólettar? (“What does the kas in kasólettur mean?”)
Anagrams
Salar
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kȫŕ. Cognate to Turkish köz.
Pronunciation
- (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): /kʰøs/
Noun
kös (3rd person possessive kösi, plural kösler)
Related terms
References
- Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “kös”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 393
- 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1992) “kös”, in 撒拉汉汉撒拉词汇 [Salar-Chinese, Chinese-Salar Vocabulary], 成都: 四川民族出版社, →ISBN, page 97
- Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “kös”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon[1], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 138
- Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “kös”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 164
Swedish
Noun
kös
- indefinite genitive singular of kö