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Kis borrowed, and of the gender of the Southern terms for fruit, see.   ', ',, ‘cushion,’ from küssen, küssîn,  chussī̆n, , ‘cushion’;   kussen, ‘cushion.’ The  word is derived (  and ) from the   cussînus ( coussin), which comes from  *culcitinum, allied to culcita, ‘mattress, cushion’;  cushion and  cuscino are modern  loan-words. The i of  comes from  and  dialects (  and ).   ,, ‘box,’ from kiste,  chista, , ‘box, chest’;   kist,  čest, čîste,  chest,  kista, ‘box.’ In  a cognate term is wanting. The assumption that the languages borrowed  cista ( κίστη) at a very early period, at any rate long before the change of the initial c of cista into tz, presents no greater difficulty than in the case of ; , , and. Hence between and  there is no etymological connection; the first has no cognate term in.   ,, from the  küte, küt, , ‘cement, putty,’  chuti, quiti, ‘glue, birdlime,’ which makes it probable that the  form was *qidus;  also  cwidu, ‘resin of trees.’  allied to  bitumen,  jatu, ‘resin of trees’; common type getú. Allied also to kváða,  kåda, ‘resin,’  code, ‘pitch.’   ,, ‘smock-frock,’ from kitel, kittel, , ‘smock-frock, shirt, chemise.’  cyrtel,  kirtle,  kyrtell, on account of the medial r and the abnormal dental correspondence, cannot be compared (they are allied to ). Its connection with χιτών is impossible. The origin of the word has not been explained. The strong suspicion that it has been borrowed cannot be proved.    (1.),, from the  kitze, kiz, ,  chizzî, kizzîn, , ‘kid’; from  *kittîn, , with the original  suffix -îna, which appears in  and. *kidi (kidjis),, may be deduced from kið, , ‘she-goat,’ whence  kid is borrowed (an  word cognate with  must have had an initial ch). Further, the assumed *kidi and *kittein, with medial dentals, are related to each other, just as the forms assumed under, tigô and tikkein, with  medial gutturals. The close correspondence between and  proves that they are related; both are pet names for, ‘goat’ ( Swiss gitzi for  chitzî).

' (2.), ',, ‘kitten, kid, fawn,’ not found in and , but probably existing in the vernacular, as is indicated by the specifically  tz compared with  tt (kitte);   chitte, ‘kitten,’ from an unrecorded  *citten ( kitten);  kitlung,  kitling, are probably borrowed from  ketlingr, ‘kitten.’ The cognates are related by gradation to.  ,, ‘to tickle,’ from the  kitzeln, kützeln,  chizzilôn, chuzzilôn;   ketelen,  kitla;  cytelian ( to kittle) is based on the  form *kutilôn. to tickle, tikelen, is based on a transposition of consonants in the root kit (so too  zicklen, ‘to provoke’); , , , and. The root kit, kut, ‘to tickle,’ seems to have been coined anew in  on an onomatopoetic basis; hence the  variants chizzilôn, chuzzilôn. In cognate languages similar correspondences are formed anew;  kutēt, ‘to tickle.’ The , , ‘tickling,’ first occurs in  and is formed from the ;. ,, ‘to run noisily,’ only;  a  term; in consequence of the entire absence of the word in the earlier periods of the languages its origin is dubious; it is most probably akin to  klaphôn,  klaffen, ‘to clatter’;  clappian,  to clap.  ,, ‘rough draft, day-book,’ only, from  kladde, ‘impurity, dirt,’ then ‘rough draft’; further details for the elucidation of the  word  are wanting.   ,, ‘crash, yelp, bark,’ from klaf ( klaffes) and klapf, , ‘report, crack,’  klaph, , anaklaph, ‘shock’;  klaffen, klapfen, ‘to ring, resound,’ ûf klaffen, ‘to break asunder, open, gape,’  chlaphôn;  *klappôn is wanting;  clappian,  to clap. ‘Resounding’ is the meaning of the stem klapp, while ‘cracking, bursting, gaping’ is the derivative sense;   and. <section end="Klaff" /> <section begin="Klafter" /> ,, , and , ‘fathom,’ from klâfter, , , and , <section end="Klafter" />