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)

  1. a pile (e.g. of stones, blubber or the like)
  2. a heap of fish
  3. (computing) a heap; a large pool of unused memory whence dynamic memory is allocated[2]

Declension
declension of kös
f-s2 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

See also

References
  1. Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans. (Available on Málið.is under the “Eldra mál” tab.)
  2. kös
  3. Icelandic Web of Science: Hvað er þetta 'kas' þegar konur eru kasólettar? (“What does the kas in kasólettur mean?”)

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Salar

Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. coal

Swedish

Noun

kös

  1. indefinite genitive singular of kö

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