coss

== English == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Hindustani کوس / कोस (kos). Doublet of krosa. ==== Alternative forms ==== cos, kos, kós, koss ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /kɒs/ Rhymes: -ɒs ==== Noun ==== coss (plural cosses or coss) (British India, South Asia) A measure of distance, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles. 1857, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal, No. XXVII: Papers Relative to the Colonization, Commerce, Physical Geography, &c., &c., of the Himalaya Mountains and Nepal, p. 85: […] the distances (computed by marching-time as well as by reference to the Népálese kós of 2⅓ miles each) […] === Etymology 2 === ==== Adjective ==== coss (not comparable) Alternative form of khass. === See also === rule of coss === Anagrams === CSOs, SCOs, Socs, socs == Old English == === Alternative forms === cos, *cus === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *kussaz. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /koss/, [kos] === Noun === coss m kiss Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church ==== Declension ==== Strong a-stem: ==== Derived terms ==== cyssan ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: cos, cus, kis, kys, kysse, kesseEnglish: kissScots: kisYola: kesse