coss
See also: COSS
English
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editEtymology
editBorrowed from Hindustani کوس / कोस (kos). Doublet of krosa.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcoss (plural cosses or coss)
- (British India, South Asia) A measure of distance, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles.
- 1857, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal, No. XXVII: Papers Relative to the Colonization, Commerce, Physical Geography, &c., &c., of the Himalaya Mountains and Nepal, p. 85:
- ... the distances (computed by marching-time as well as by reference to the Népálese kós of 2⅓ miles each) ...
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, 'In Flood Time', In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, pages 410–11:
- A full half koss from bank to bank is the stream now – you can see it under the stars – and there are ten feet of water therein.
- 1857, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal, No. XXVII: Papers Relative to the Colonization, Commerce, Physical Geography, &c., &c., of the Himalaya Mountains and Nepal, p. 85:
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editOld English
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editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *kussaz.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcoss m
- kiss
- mid ānum cosse of þē
- with one kiss from you
Declension
editStrong a-stem:
singular | plural | |
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nominative | coss | cossas |
accusative | coss | cossas |
genitive | cosses | cossa |
dative | cosse | cossum |
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