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Where does “coiste” come from?

coiste (Middle Irish) comes from Old French queste, from Latin quaesta, from Latin quaesita, from Latin quaesitus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

coiste (Middle Irish): jury

Definitions

  1. jury

Ancestry of “coiste”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchquestesearch; act, instance of searching
2Latinquaestatribute, tax, inquiry, search
3Latinquaesitanominative feminine singular of quaesītus;...
4Latinquaesitussought for, having been sought for; asked, having...
5Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
6Proto-Italic-tus—
7Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “coiste”

  • buanchoiste
  • fochoiste
  • coiste
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →