kosi

See also: kosī, kosí, koši, kòsi, and коси

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkosɪ]
• Rhymes: -osɪ
• Hyphenation: ko‧si
• Homophone: kosy

Noun

kosi

1. nominative/vocative plural of kos

Finnish

Verb

kosi

1. inflection of kosia:
   1. third-person singular past indicative
   2. present active indicative connegative
   3. second-person singular present imperative
   4. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Anagrams

• Isko, oksi

Ingrian

Etymology 1

Back-formation from kossia (“to propose to”).

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkosi/, [ˈko̞s̠i]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkosi/, [ˈko̞ʒ̥i]
• Rhymes: -osi
• Hyphenation: ko‧si

Noun

kosi

1. act of asking the parents for their blessing in marriage

Declension

Declension of kosi (type 5/vahti, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	kosi	kosit
genitive	kosin	kossiin, kosiloin
partitive	kossia	kosija, kosiloja
illative	kossii	kossii, kosiloihe
inessive	kosis	kosiis, kosilois
elative	kosist	kosiist, kosiloist
allative	kosille	kosiille, kosiloille
adessive	kosil	kosiil, kosiloil
ablative	kosilt	kosiilt, kosiloilt
translative	kosiks	kosiiks, kosiloiks
essive	kosinna, kossiin	kosiinna, kosiloinna, kossiin, kosiloin
exessive1)	kosint	kosiint, kosiloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkosi/, [ˈko̞s̠i]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkosi/, [ˈko̞ʒ̥i]
• Rhymes: -osi
• Hyphenation: ko‧si

Noun

kosi

1. Alternative form of kosa

Declension

Declension of kosi (type 5/vahti, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	kosi	kosit
genitive	kosin	kossiin, kosiloin
partitive	kossia	kosija, kosiloja
illative	kossii	kossii, kosiloihe
inessive	kosis	kosiis, kosilois
elative	kosist	kosiist, kosiloist
allative	kosille	kosiille, kosiloille
adessive	kosil	kosiil, kosiloil
ablative	kosilt	kosiilt, kosiloilt
translative	kosiks	kosiiks, kosiloiks
essive	kosinna, kossiin	kosiinna, kosiloinna, kossiin, kosiloin
exessive1)	kosint	kosiint, kosiloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 198

Kilivila

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkos(i)/

Noun

kosi

1. ghost; an immortal aspect of the dead, which did not go to Tuma Island and scares living people by playing tricks on them

See also

• baloma

References

• Bronisław Malinowski (1916), Baloma; the Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands, pp. 150-152. (retrieved 17 December 2015)
• Gunter Senft (1986), Kilivila: the Language of the Trobriand Islanders. Berlin • New York • Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter, p. 291. →ISBN

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Participle

kosi

1. (non-standard since 2012) feminine of kosen
2. (non-standard since 2012) neuter of kosen

Verb

kosi

1. (non-standard since 2012) supine of kjosa

Etymology 2

Noun

kosi f

1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of kos
2. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of kòs

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.ɕi/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɔɕi
• Syllabification: ko‧si

Adjective

kosi

1. virile nominative/vocative plural of kosy

Verb

kosi

1. third-person singular present of kosić

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

kosi

1. inflection of kos:
   1. masculine nominative/vocative plural
   2. definite masculine nominative/vocative singular
   3. definite inanimate masculine accusative singular

Verb

kosi (Cyrillic spelling коси)

1. inflection of kositi:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person singular imperative

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English curse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.si/

Verb

kosi

1. to swear, to curse
2. to insult, to swear at
   • 2011, Selectabeats, Kayente (lyrics and music), “Djoegoe Djoegoe”:

     Ei Selecta, mi granmama ben leri mi altèit, "no kosi kaiman fosi abra liba, boi".

     Hey Selecta, my grandmother always taught me: "don't curse the caiman before crossing the river, boy"

Noun

kosi

1. curse, swear

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Noun

kosi

1. plural of ukosi

Tocharian B

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂s-u-en-, a form of *kʷeh₂s- (“to cough”). Cognate with German Husten, Lithuanian kosulỹs, Irish casacht, etc.

Noun

kosi m

1. cough

Further reading

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “kosi”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 221-222

Yilan Creole

Etymology

From Clipping of skosi, from Japanese 少し (sukoshi).

Adverb

kosi

1. a little; slightly

References

• Chien Yuehchen (2015) “The lexical system of Yilan Creole”, in New Advances in Formosan Linguistics‎^[1], pages 513-532
• 真田信治 [Shinji Sanada] (2015) “宜蘭クレオールにおけるsound substitutionについて [On the sound substitution of Yilan Creole]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[2]