# kosi
## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkosɪ]
* Rhymes: -osɪ
* Hyphenation: ko‧si
* Homophone: kosy

### Noun

kosi
* nominative/vocative plural of kos

## Finnish
### Verb

kosi
* inflection of kosia:
** third-person singular past indicative
** present active indicative connegative
** second-person singular present imperative
** second-person singular present active imperative connegative

### Anagrams

* Isko, oksi

## Ingrian
### Etymology 1

Back-formation from kossia (“to propose to”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈkosi/, [ˈko̞s̠i]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈkosi/, [ˈko̞ʒ̥i]
* Rhymes: -osi
* Hyphenation: ko‧si

#### Noun

kosi
* act of asking the parents for their blessing in marriage

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈkosi/, [ˈko̞s̠i]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈkosi/, [ˈko̞ʒ̥i]
* Rhymes: -osi
* Hyphenation: ko‧si

#### Noun

kosi
* Alternative form of kosa

##### Declension
### References

* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 198

## Kilivila
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkos(i)/

### Noun

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

#### See also

* baloma

### References

* 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

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1
#### Participle

kosi
* (non-standard since 2012) feminine of kosen
* (non-standard since 2012) neuter of kosen

#### Verb

kosi
* (non-standard since 2012) supine of kjosa

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

kosi f
* (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of kos
* (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of kòs

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔ.ɕi/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔɕi
* Syllabification: ko‧si

### Adjective

kosi
* virile nominative/vocative plural of kosy

### Verb

kosi
* third-person singular present of kosić

## Serbo-Croatian
### Adjective

kosi
* inflection of kos:
** masculine nominative/vocative plural
** definite masculine nominative/vocative singular
** definite inanimate masculine accusative singular

### Verb

kosi (Cyrillic spelling коси)
* inflection of kositi:
** third-person singular present
** second-person singular imperative

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

From English curse.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈko.si/

### Verb

kosi
* to swear, to curse
* to insult, to swear at
** 2011, Selectabeats, Kayente (lyrics and music), “Djoegoe Djoegoe”:Ei Selecta, mi granmama ben leri mi altèit, "no kosi kaiman fosi abra liba, boi".Hey Selecta, my grandmother always taught me: "don't curse the caiman before crossing the river, boy"

### Noun

kosi
* curse, swear

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

kosi
* plural of ukosi

## Tocharian B
### Etymology

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

### Noun

kosi m
* cough

### Further reading

* 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

## Yilan Creole
### Etymology

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

### Adverb

kosi
* a little; slightly

### References

* 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 book title or journal name)‎