kesos

Agawam

Etymology

Cognate to Abenaki kizos.

Noun

kesos

1. month

References

• Gordon M. Day, An Agawam Fragment, in International Journal of American Linguistics, 33 (1967); also published in In Search of New England's Native Past: Selected Essays (1998, →ISBN

Old Leonese

Etymology

From Latin cāseōs, accusative plural of cāseus (“cheese”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kwh₂et- (“to ferment, become sour”). Compare Old Galician-Portuguese queijo and Old Spanish queso.

Noun

kesos m

1. cheeses (plural form)
   • 974-980 "Nodicia de kesos":

     Nodicia de kesos que espisit frater Semeno (…)

     List of cheeses that friar Semeno expended (…)

Descendants

• Asturian: quesu, queisu
• Extremaduran: quesu
• Leonese: queisu
• Mirandese: queiso

Swedish

Noun

kesos

1. indefinite genitive singular of keso