kös

kös

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kos"

Icelandic

Etymology

From the Old Norse kös (“a heap, a pile”).[1] Confer the Nynorsk kos and kas and a dialectal Swedish kas,[1] possibly related to the Latin agger (“a rampart, a bulwark; a dam; a heap, a pile”), congeriēs (“a heap, a pile, a mass; a collection, an accumulation”) and gerō (“I carry, I bear”).[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰœːs/
• Rhymes: -œːs

Noun

kös f (genitive singular kasar, nominative plural kasir)

1. a pile (e.g. of stones, blubber or the like)
2. a heap of fish
3. (computing) a heap; a large pool of unused memory whence dynamic memory is allocated[2]

Declension

declension of kös

f-s2	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kös	kösin	kasir	kasirnar
accusative	kös	kösina	kasir	kasirnar
dative	kös	kösinni	kösum	kösunum
genitive	kasar	kasarinnar	kasa	kasanna

Derived terms

• kas-[3]
• kasa[1][3]

Related terms

• kasta
• kesja
• köstur

See also

• hrúga
• köstur

References

1. Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1st edition, 2nd printing (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans.
2. kös
3. Icelandic Web of Science: Hvað er þetta 'kas' þegar konur eru kasólettar? (“What does the kas in kasólettur mean?”)

Anagrams

• sök

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Swedish

Noun

kös

1. indefinite genitive singular of kö