kós

kós (plural kósses or kós)

1. Alternative spelling of coss.
   • 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, pp. 85–86:

     ... the distances (computed by marching-time as well as by reference to the Népálese kós of 2⅓ miles each) ... The total distance from Káthmándú to Pekin, according to the Káji, is 1,268½ kós; according to the Chountra, 1,250 kós ...

kós f (genitive singular kósar, plural kósir)

1. deepening, hollow, little valley
2. little creek

kós f (genitive singular kósar, plural kósir)

1. (nautical) course

kós f (genitive singular kósar, plural kósir)

1. (nautical) hole with iron ring in a sail

 

• kos (superseded)

From Proto-Slavic *kosъ. Cognate with Upper Sorbian kós.

• IPA^(key): /kɨs/, /kɛs/, (dated) /kʊs/

kós m anim

1. blackbird (Turdus merula)

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “kós”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “kós”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag