kosi

• IPA^(key): /ˈkosɪ/
• Rhymes: -osɪ
• Hyphenation: ko‧si
• Homophone: kosy

kosi

1. nominative/vocative plural of kos

kosi

1. third-person singular past indicative of kosia
2. present active indicative connegative of kosia
3. second-person singular present imperative of kosia
4. second-person singular present active imperative connegative of kosia

• Isko, oksi

• IPA^(key): /ˈkos(i)/

kosi

1. ghost; an immortal aspect of the dead, which did not go to Tuma Island and scares living people by playing tricks on them

• baloma

• Bronisław Malinowski (1916), Baloma; the Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands, pp. 150-152. (retrieved 17 December 2015)
• Gunter Senft (1986), Kilivila: the Language of the Trobriand Islanders. Berlin • New York • Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter, p. 291. →ISBN

kosi

1. (non-standard since 2012) feminine of kosen
2. (non-standard since 2012) neuter of kosen

kosi

1. (non-standard since 2012) supine of kjosa

kosi f

1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of kos
2. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of kòs

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.ɕi/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɕi
• Syllabification: ko‧si

kosi

1. virile nominative/vocative plural of kosy

kosi

1. third-person singular present of kosić

kosi

1. inflection of kos:
   1. masculine nominative/vocative plural
   2. definite masculine nominative/vocative singular
   3. definite inanimate masculine accusative singular

kosi (Cyrillic spelling коси)

1. inflection of kositi:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person singular imperative

From English curse.

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.si/

kosi

1. to swear, to curse
2. to insult, to swear at

kosi

1. curse, swear

kosi

1. plural of ukosi

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂s-u-en-, a form of *kʷeh₂s- (“to cough”). Cognate with German Husten, Lithuanian kosulỹs, Irish casacht, etc.

kosi m

1. cough

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), “kosi”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 221-222

From Clipping of skosi, from Japanese 少し (sukoshi).

kosi

1. a little; slightly

• Chien Yuehchen (2015), “The lexical system of Yilan Creole”, in New Advances in Formosan Linguistics‎, pages 513-532
• 真田信治 [Shinji Sanada] (2015), “宜蘭クレオールにおけるsound substitutionについて [On the sound substitution of Yilan Creole]”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎