kös

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kos"

Icelandic

Etymology

From the 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

declension of kös

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
f-s2	singular		plural
nominative	kös	kösin	kasir	kasirnar
accusative	kös	kösina	kasir	kasirnar
dative	kös	kösinni	kösum	kösunum
genitive	kasar	kasarinnar	kasa	kasanna

Derived terms

kas-^[3]
kasa^[1]^[3]

Related terms

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans. (Available on Málið.is under the “Eldra mál” 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

sök

Salar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kȫŕ. Compare to Tuvan көс (kös), etc.

Noun

kös (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural [please provide])

coal

Related terms

kumır

Swedish

Noun

kös

indefinite genitive singular of kö

Anagrams

sök, öks

[blondal-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans. (Available on Málið.is under the “Eldra mál” tab.)

[2] ös

[visinda-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Icelandic Web of Science: Hvað er þetta 'kas' þegar konur eru kasólettar? (“What does the kas in kasólettur mean?”)

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