# kosta
## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse kosta, borrowed through Middle Low German from Latin constare, present infinitive of consto (“I stand firm (on price)”).

### Verb

kosta (third person singular past indicative kostaði, third person plural past indicative kostaðu, supine kostað)
* to cost

#### Derived terms

* hvat kostar tað? - how much is it?

## Finnish
### Verb

kosta
* inflection of kostaa:
** present active indicative connegative
** second-person singular present imperative
** second-person singular present active imperative connegative

### Anagrams

* katos, katso, kotsa, oksat, sakot, sokat, sotka

## Guinea-Bissau Creole
### Etymology

From Portuguese costas. Cognate with Kabuverdianu kósta.

### Noun

kosta
* back (the backside of the body)

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkʰɔsta/
    Rhymes: -ɔsta

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

kosta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kostaði, supine kostað)
* to cost
    Þessi hálsfesti kostaði mikla peninga!This necklace cost a lot of money!
* to finance, to bear the cost of
    Foreldrar mínir kostuðu námið mitt.My parents financed my education.

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

kosta
* indefinite genitive plural of kostur

## Latvian
### Participle

kosta
* inflection of kosts:
** genitive singular masculine
** nominative singular feminine

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* kostet

### Verb

kosta
* inflection of koste:
** simple past
** past participle

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* koste
* køste (to cost, Telemark, eye dialect)
* kåst (to cost, eye dialect spelling with apocope)

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse kosta, from Middle Low German [Term?], from Latin constare.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²kɔstɑ/

#### Verb

kosta (present tense kostar, past tense kosta, past participle kosta, passive infinitive kostast, present participle kostande, imperative kosta/kost)
* to cost (require payment of a price, cause something to be lost)

### Etymology 2

From the noun kost.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²kʊstɑ/

#### Verb

kosta (present tense kostar, past tense kosta, past participle kosta, passive infinitive kostast, present participle kostande, imperative kosta/kost)
* to sweep (clean with a broom)

### References

* “kosta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kustōną (“to try, taste”), from *kustuz, whence also Old Norse kostr.

### Verb

kosta
* to try [with genitive]
* (with infinitive) to exert oneself, strive
* (impersonal) to injure, to hurt [with accusative ‘someone’ and accusative ‘in some body part’] (idiomatically translated as "injure/hurt" or "be injured in" with the animate accusative object as the subject)
    þat fall var svá mikit, at kostaði lærlegg hansthe fall was so great, that he injured his thigh-bone
* to cost [with accusative ‘someone’ and accusative ‘something’]
* (impersonal) to cost [with accusative ‘someone’, along with accusative ‘something’, along with genitive or accusative ‘some amount of money’] (idiomatically translated as "cost" with the inanimate accusative object as the subject, i.e. "something costs someone some amount of money")
* to defray the expenses of

#### Related terms

* kostnaðr
* kostr

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: kosta
* Norwegian Nynorsk: kosta, koste, køste (to cost, Telemark, eye dialect), kåst (to cost, eye dialect spelling with apocope)

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “kosta”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse kosta, from Middle Low German [Term?], from Latin constare.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

kosta (present kostar, preterite kostade, supine kostat, imperative kosta)
* to cost

#### Derived terms

* kosta på
* kosta skjortan

#### Related terms

* kostnad

### References

* kosta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* kosta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* kotas, tokas

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish costa, from Galician costa or Catalan costa.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈkosta/ [ˈkos.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -osta
* Syllabification: kos‧ta

### Noun

kosta (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜐ᜔ᜆ)
* shore; coast
    Synonyms: baybay, baybay-dagat, baybayin, baybayin-dagat, pasigan, dalampasigan, hampasang-alon, pampang, kosto
* cost; expenses
    Synonyms: gastos, gugol, kosto, kostas

#### Derived terms

* dagang-kosta
* mayang-kosta

#### Related terms

* guwardakosta
* interkostal
* kostado

### Anagrams

* sakto