kus

• IPA^(key): /kœs/

From Dutch kust, from Middle Dutch cost, from Old French coste, from Latin costa (“rib, side”)

kus (plural kuste)

1. coast, shoreline, seashore
   • 1986, Die Noordweste. Die stoflike kultuuruitinge van die streek se bewoners, page 31.

     In 1862 word 'n pad vanaf die kopermyne na Hondeklipbaai aan die kus gebou.

     In 1862 a path from the copper mines to Hondeklip Bay at the coast is built.

2. coastal region

• kusbeskerming
• kusgebergte
• kusgebied
• kuslangs
• kusstad
• rotskus
• seekus

From Dutch kussen, from Middle Dutch cussen, from Old Dutch kussen, from Proto-Germanic *kussijaną. Cognate with English kiss, German küssen, and Danish kysse.

kus (present kus, present participle kussende, past participle gekus)

1. to kiss
   • 2012, Pieter Aspe, Vierkant van die wraak, LAPA.

     Sy steek 'n hand na hom uit, en vir 'n oomblik oorweeg hy om dit galant te kus.

     She holds a hand in front of him, and for a moment he considers kissing it gallantly.

• soen

The use of kus as an alternative for soen is rarely used in speech but is more commonly found in literature, often being used poetically.

From Dutch kus, from Middle Dutch kos, from Old Dutch *kos, from Proto-Germanic *kussaz. Cognate with English kiss, German Kuss, and Danish kys.

kus (plural kusse)

1. kiss
   • 1984, Eugène Nielen Marais, Versamelde werke, Leon Rousseau (ed.), Van Schaik (publ.), page 930.

     Sy vou haar armpies om die ou man se nek maar in plaas van haar geheimpie te hoor, bedek hy die gesiggie met kusse.

     She wraps her short arms around the old man's neck, but instead of listening to her secret he covers her little face with kisses.

• soen

As with the noun.

From the same root as kusa (“standing”), because the stalks stand upright.

kus

1. corn, maize

The initial consonant is sometimes voiced: gus.

• kus suk (“corncob”, literally “corn house”)
• kus sarak (“wheat”, literally “corn grass”)

• 1900, Albert S. Gatschet, Grammatic Sketch of the Catawba Language (published in the American Anthropologist)

From Proto-Slavic *kǫsъ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkus]

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kus m

1. piece (part)
2. chunk

• kousek m
• kousíček m
• kousat

• část f

• kus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• kus in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /kʏs/

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• Hyphenation: kus
• Rhymes: -ʏs

From Middle Dutch kos, kus, from Old Dutch *kos, *kus, from Proto-Germanic *kussaz. The older Dutch forms with -u- are taken from the verb, those with -o- derive directly from the noun. Compare German Kuss, English kiss, Danish kys.

kus m (plural kussen, diminutive kusje n)

1. kiss

• zoen

• Afrikaans: kus

kus

1. first-person singular present indicative of kussen
2. imperative of kussen

From Proto-Finnic *ku.

kus

1. (interrogative) where (in which place)
2. (relative) where (in which place)

kus m

1. plural of ku

kus

1. where

kus

1. where

From Proto-Germanic *kussaz, whence also Old Saxon kus, Old English coss, Old Norse koss.

kus m

1. kiss

• Middle High German: kus, kos
  • German: Kuss

From Proto-Germanic *kussaz. Compare Old English coss, Old Frisian koss, Old High German kus, Old Norse koss.

kus m

1. a kiss

• kussian

• Middle Low German: kus, kuss

From Proto-Slavic *kǫsъ.

• IPA^(key): /kûːs/

kȗs m (Cyrillic spelling ку̑с)

1. (rare) piece, part

• komad
• parče
• deo/dio

kȗs (definite kȗsī, Cyrillic spelling ку̑с) (rare)

1. tailless
2. too short
3. incomplete

From Proto-Slavic *kǫsъ, cognate with Russian кус (kus) and кусок (kusok), Slovene kos, Serbo-Croatian кус, kus, Bulgarian къс (kǎs). Non-Slavic cognates include Sanskrit खादति (khādati, “he chews”), Persian خاییدن‎ (xāyīdan, “to chew”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkus/

kus m (genitive singular kusa, nominative plural kusy, genitive plural kusov, declension pattern of dub)

1. piece

• kusový
• kúsok, kúštik, kusoček, kúštiček
• kusisko

• kus in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

From Proto-Tocharian *kuse, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷusó from *kʷos, *kʷis. Compare Tocharian B kᵤse.

kus (accusative kuc)

1. who (interrogative)

• kusne (relative pronoun)

kus

1. second-person imperative of kusmak

• kusma

kus

1. where, in what place (interrogative)

• miš

• kus-ni
• kus-se
• koje-kus
• nikus

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “где”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

• IPA^(key): /²kʉːs/ (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -ʉ̀ːs

kus m

1. One who puts fear in someone; master, foreman, supervisor.

   Hä står ill dill ti huse, der ingen jär kus

   There is trouble in the house where no one is master

2. A strong, capable man, considered better than others; the most prominent; also said of animals.

   Hä va kusen dill kar!

   A good man!

   Hä var kus’n dill häst

   a good horse

3. crawling winged insect

• kuus