Where does “kǫstr” come from?
kǫstr (Old Norse) comes from Middle Low German kost, from German Kosten, from Italian costo, from Polish koszt, from Hungarian kösz, from Hungarian köszönöm, from Hungarian -öm, from Hungarian -ö- — 3rd person plural verb ending.
kǫstr (Old Norse): pile
Definitions
- pile
Ancestry of “kǫstr”, step by step
kǫstr traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle Low German kost
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle Low German | kost | meal; food |
| 2 | German | Kosten | costs |
| 3 | Italian | costo | cost; expense; usury |
| 4 | Polish | koszt | cost |
| 5 | Hungarian | kösz | thanks |
| 6 | Hungarian | köszönöm | first-person singular indicative present definite... |
| 7 | Hungarian | -öm | Used to form the first-person singular present... |
| 8 | Hungarian | -ö- | linking vowel |
| 9 | Hungarian | -d | your; Used in the second-person singular definite... |
| 10 | Middle Welsh | -nt | 3rd person plural verb ending |