ceosan

== Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“taste, choose”). Cognate with Old Frisian kiāsa, Old Saxon kiosan, Old High German kiosan, Old Norse kjósa, Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (kiusan). The Indo-European root was also the source of Latin gustus (“taste”), Albanian desha (“chosen”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃe͜oː.sɑn/, [ˈt͡ʃe͜oː.zɑn] Rhymes: -e͜oː.sɑn === Verb === ċēosan to choose, select The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to elect to accept ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Coordinate terms ==== cyre (“choice”) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ċīes ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: chesen, chees, cheese, cheesen, chese, chesyn, cheose, cheys, chiese, chiesen, chyese, chose, chuse, cesen, cheosen (Early Middle English)English: chooseMiddle Scots: ches, chese, chuisScots: chuise, cheese