Where does “Kush” come from?
Kush comes from Hebrew כוש, which is borrowed from Egyptian kꜣš, a term of uncertain meaning referring to a region south of Egypt.
Kush (English): Alternative letter-case form of kush
Definitions
- Alternative letter-case form of kush
Ancestry of “Kush”, step by step
Kush traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Kusch
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Kusch | lie down!, be quiet! |
| 2 | French | couché | past participle of coucher; in bed |
| 3 | French | coucher | to lay, to lay down; to put to bed, to put up; to... |
| 4 | Middle French | coucher | to put to bed; setting |
| 5 | Old French | couchier | to go to bed; to have sex; bedtime |
| 6 | Latin | collocō | to place, put, set in order, assign, arrange |
| 7 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 8 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 9 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |