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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kustuz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus (“taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to enjoy, taste”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkus.tuz/
Noun
*kustuz m
- trial, choice
Inflection
u-stemDeclension of *kustuz (u-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *kustuz | *kustiwiz | |
vocative | *kustu | *kustiwiz | |
accusative | *kustų | *kustunz | |
genitive | *kustauz | *kustiwǫ̂ | |
dative | *kustiwi | *kustumaz | |
instrumental | *kustū | *kustumiz |
Related terms
- *keusaną
- *kustiz
Descendants
- Old English: cost (possibly also from Old Norse); cyst m
- Middle English: cost
- Scots: cost, kost, coust
- English: cost (“manner, way”)
- Middle English: cost
- Old Frisian: kest
- Old Saxon: *cust , kust
- Old Dutch: *kust
- Middle Dutch: cust
- Dutch: kust (archaic)
- Middle Dutch: cust
- Old High German: *kust
- Middle High German: kust
- German: Kust m (dialectal)
- Middle High German: kust
- Old Norse: kostr
- Icelandic: kostur
- Faroese: kostur
- Old Swedish: koster, kuster
- Swedish: -kost in farkost
- Danish: kost
- Gothic: 𐌺𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (kustus)