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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1st edition, 2nd printing (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans.
  2. ↑ kös
  3. 1 2 Icelandic Web of Science: Hvað er þetta 'kas' þegar konur eru kasólettar? (“What does the kas in kasólettur mean?”)

Anagrams

Swedish

Noun

kös

  1. indefinite genitive singular of kö
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