Where does “cost” come from?
cost (Welsh) comes from English cost, from Middle English cost, from Middle English costen, from Old French couster, from Medieval Latin costo, from Latin consto, from Latin com-, from Latin con- — whale, sea monster; abyss.
cost (Welsh): cost; expense
Definitions
- cost; expense
Ancestry of “cost”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | cost | To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price |
| 2 | Middle English | cost | means |
| 3 | Middle English | costen | to cost |
| 4 | Old French | couster | Alternative form of coster; to cost |
| 5 | Medieval Latin | costo | — |
| 6 | Latin | consto | to stand together; to stand still; to remain the... |
| 7 | Latin | com- | allomorph of con- |
| 8 | Latin | con- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing... |
| 9 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 10 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 16 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |