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Kos   (1.),, ‘cost,’ from koste kost,  and , ‘value, price, expense,’ even in  kosta, ; borrowed in the  period from  costus, , costa,  (  costo, ,  coût, ,  costa, ; ultimate source  constare, ‘to come to, cost’). From are derived  costen,  to cost, whence  kosta, ‘to cost.’

 (2.), (in the 16th  also ), ‘board,’ from  koste, kost,, ‘living, food, victuals’;   kostr, , ‘victuals, provisions.’ In  as in the  word, the meanings of (1) and (2) overlap; at all events (2) is a later development of (1). We must certainly assume that the loan-word kostr, ‘expense, victuals,’ was confused with an  word which would be most closely connected with  kustus,, ‘trial, proof,’ and gakusts, ‘test’;  kostr, , ‘choice, condition, circumstances.’ With regard to these nouns see.   (1.),, ‘to cost,’ from kosten, ‘to come to, cost’; from  and  costare ( constare);  coûter; see  (1) and (2);  to cost.

 (2.),, ‘to taste,’ from ‘to scrutinise, test by tasting’;  and  costôn,  costian (wanting in ); a common   meaning ‘to put to the test, scrutinise, try.’ , like the  words mentioned under  (2), is connected with , and is identical in form with  gustâre, ‘to taste.’  kus, pre- gus, is the root. .  ,, ‘expensive,’ first used towards the end of the 18th ; it contains, however, an old word which has elsewhere disappeared, and even in this compound has been corrupted; spildec, ‘extravagant’;  spilden, ‘to squander, dissipate’ (from  gaspilden,  gaspiller is derived). Hence *kostspildig is probably ‘squandering money’; spildig, which was etymologically obscure, was corrupted into.  ' (1.), ',, ‘cot’; a  word;  kote, kot,  kot, ‘hut’; corresponding to  cot, , and cote, , ‘hut’; from the former  cot is derived ( cottage is the same word with a  suffix;   cotagium,  cotage), from the latter came cote in dove-cote and sheep-cote,   kot, , ‘small farm.’  *kut, , or *kutô, , is wanting. The widely ramified class is genuinely, and passed into  ( kotĭcĭ, ‘cella’) and  ( cot). words have also been derived from it — cotte, cotillon,  cotta, all of which denote some article of dress, though this sense does not belong to the  word ( coat, at all events, is probably derived from ). The word means only ‘apartment, hut, room of a house’; gudo- is perhaps the pre-historic form. — , also by assimilation, , , ‘person settled in a small farm’; also spelt.

 (2.), ‘dirt, mire, dung,’ from the  kôt, quât, kât, ,  quât;  *qêda-, ‘dirt,’ is wanting. Prop. ; quât,  kwaad, ‘wicked, ugly, rotten’ ( cwêd, ‘bad’). and are in the same way veiled terms for stercus. In its pre- form guêtho, might be related by gradation to  gûtha, Zend gûtha, ‘dirt, excrementa,’ so that the   may have been formed from the  even in prehistoric times; the  and Zend word seems, however, to be connected with the  root gu, ‘caccare’ ( govĭno,, ‘dirt’).   ', ',, ‘pastern joint,’ only, from  kote;   koot,  kate, , ‘knuckle-bone.’ No other cognates are found.   ,, ‘cur,’ ‘farmer's dog,’ allied. to kote, ‘small farm.’ See  (1).   ,, ‘coarse cloth,’ from kotze, , ‘coarse, shaggy woollen stuff, cover or garment made of it,’  chozzo, , chozza, ;   cot (tt) ‘woollen cloak, coat’; a specifically  word, wanting in , , and. The words mentioned under  (1) —  cotte, ‘petticoat,’  cotta — seem to have been borrowed from, since in  other words belong to the same class,  umbîchuzzi, ‘upper garment,’ umbichuzzen, , ‘amicire.’ On the assumption that  is a genuine  word, some have connected it with  βεῦδος (from the root gud), ‘woman's dress.’  cote,  coat are certainly of  origin,  cote,  cotta. .   ,, ‘basket,’ from the  kœtze, of obscure origin;. 