Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/koss

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kussaz.

Noun

*koss m

kiss

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*koss
Genitive	*kossas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*koss	kossō, kossōs
Accusative	*koss	*kossā
Genitive	*kossas	*kossō
Dative	*kossē	*kossum
Instrumental	*kossu	*kossum

Derived terms

*kussijan

Descendants

Old English: coss, cos
- Middle English: cos, cus; kys, kis
  - English: kiss
  - Scots: kis
Old Frisian: koss, kos
Old Saxon: kuss, kus, koss, kos
- Middle Low German: kus, kuss
  - Plautdietsch: Kuss
Old Dutch: *cus, *cos
- Middle Dutch: kos, kus
  - Dutch: kus
    - Afrikaans: kus
Old High German: kus, kos
- Middle High German: kus, kos
  - German: Kuss
  - Hunsrik: Kuss
  - Luxembourgish: Kuss