kös
See also: Appendix:Variations of "kos"
IcelandicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From the Old Norse kös (“a heap, a pile”).[1] Confer 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]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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]
DeclensionEdit
declension of kös
Derived termsEdit
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See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 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?”)
AnagramsEdit
SalarEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Turkic *kȫŕ. Compare to Tuvan көс (kös), etc.
NounEdit
kös (3rd person possessive {{{1}}}, plural {{{2}}})
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SwedishEdit
NounEdit
kös
- indefinite genitive singular of kö.