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Kur to the permutation (of t to ȥȥ) from  cucúrbita, whence also  cyrfet. Whether the reduplicated form of the word was influenced by  itself cannot be determined. From cucurbita are also derived  cucuzza,  gourde, whence  gourd,  kauwoerde.   ,, ‘to choose, select,’ only, derived from an older kŭr, , ‘choice,’  to.   ,, ‘furrier,’ from the  kursenœ̂re,  (sch from s, as in , , and ), a derivative of  kürsen, , ‘fur coat,’  chursinna, chrusina,  crûsne, ‘fur coat’;  crusna, crusina, crusinna. Cognate terms also occur in ( krŭzno,  korzno), in which, however, the word did not originate any more than it did in, yet it may have been introduced into  through a  medium, perhaps from some Northern language. The kinship of  chursina with  βύρσα, ‘hide, skin,’ is scarcely conceivable.  ,, ‘short,’ from the  and  kurz; a very curious loanword from  curtus. What may have led to its adoption is even more obscure than in the case of (from  securus). The assumption of its being borrowed is supported only by the form kurt (without the change of t to z), which appears also in strictly records;   porta, pforta, and pforza, from  porta. The form curt is and ;  also  kort and  kortr. The loan-word passed by degrees into all the  dialects except, which preserved an  word for ‘short’ with which the  word, from its close resemblance in sound, has been confused —  sceort,  short (  skurz, ‘short’); these cannot, on account of their want of permutation, be  allied to  curtus. For the cognates of short see.  ,, ‘kiss,’ from the  and  kus ( kusses); corresponding to  kus,  cus, cos ( -sses),  coss,  koss, ; a common  word for ‘kiss,’ wanting only in  (*kussus,   kukjan, East  kükken, ‘to kiss’). A pre- root gut, gud, ‘to kiss,’ does not occur. Indubitable cognates are not found in the non- languages unless  bus, ‘lip,’ and  bus, ‘mouth with thick lips,’ are allied. —   ,, ‘to kiss,’ from and  küssen,  chussen;  cyssan,  to kiss,  kyssa.   , see.   ,, only, from the   kuste, kust, ‘coast,’ which, like  coast,  coste, is of  origin,  coste, côte,  costa, ‘coast.’   ,, ‘sacristan,’ from the  and  kustor, kuster,. Adopted on the introduction of Christianity. While, from chrûzi, is based upon the  stem cruci-,   crucem (and not the  crux), , on the other hand, is not derived from  custodem (stem custodi-), or even from the non. custos, since in the period the change of s into r no longer occurs. We have rather to proceed from an actually recorded custor, custorem, a rare variant of the more prevalent form custod-, which appears also in  coutre,  costre, ‘sacristan.’  custos (scil. ecclesiae), ‘warden, guardian of the church jewels, holy vessels, &c., presbyter  clericus cui ecclesiae et templi cura incumbit.’ With the same sense  costurarius, whence  costarâri, as well as. <section end="Küster" /> <section begin="Kutsche" /> ,, ‘coach,’ first occurs in early from Hungar. koszi, ‘a carriage from Koszi’ (near Raab); a characteristic modern term common to the languages;   and  coche ( coach),  coccio,  koets. <section end="Kutsche" /> <section begin="Kutte" /> ,, ‘cowl,’ from kutte, , ‘monk's habit’;   cotta, cottus, ‘tunica clericis propria,’ which, however, with the corresponding  words ( cotte, ‘‘petticoat,’  cotta), may be traced back to  kotta-, appearing in  chozzo,  kotze, ‘coarse woollen stuff, cover.’. <section end="Kutte" /> <section begin="Kutteln" /> ,, ‘chitterlings, tripe,’ from kutel, , ‘gut, tripe’; as a genuine  word it is probably not cognate with  küt, ‘entrails,’ but connected rather with  qiþus, ‘belly.’ <section end="Kutteln" /> <section begin="Kux" /> ,, ‘share in a mine,’ earlier and  ; first occurs in early , perhaps introduced from the  frontier mountains. <section end="Kux" />