# kaus
## Icelandic
### Verb

kaus
* first-person singular past indicative of kjósa
* third-person singular past indicative of kjósa

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈka.ʊs/
* Hyphenation: ka‧us

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch kous (“stocking”), from Middle Dutch couse, from Picard Old French cauce, from Vulgar Latin calcea, from Latin calceus.

#### Noun

kaus (plural kaus-kaus)
* stocking (covering garment).
    Synonym: sarung
* shirt.
* the material used for those garments.

##### Derived terms

* berkaus
* kaus kaki
* kaus kutang
* kaus lampu
* kaus oblong
* kaus pendek
* kaus polo
* kaus potong
* mengausi

### Etymology 2

From Malay kaus, from Classical Malay kaus, from Classical Persian کوش (kawš, “shoe, slipper”), an alternative form of کفش (kafš).

#### Noun

kaus (plural kaus-kaus)
* (obsolete) footwear.
    Synonyms: kasut, setiwel

##### Alternative forms

* kaoes (pre-1947)

### Etymology 3

From Malay kaus, from Classical Malay kaus, from Arabic قَوْس (qaws, “bow”).

#### Noun

kaus (plural kaus-kaus)
* (obsolete) bow.
    Synonym: busur

##### Alternative forms

* kaoes (pre-1947)

### Further reading

* “kaus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Ingrian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kauci. Cognates include Finnish kausi.

### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈkɑu̯s/, [ˈkɑu̯z̠]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈkɑu̯s/, [ˈkɑu̯ʒ̥]
* Rhymes: -ɑu̯s
* Hyphenation: kaus

### Noun

kaus
* (in compounds) period

#### Derived terms

* kautta
* kuukaus
* öökaus

### References

* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 146

## White Hmong
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kau̯˩/

### Etymology 1

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Considered native Hmongic by Ratliff, though no reconstructed proto-form is given. Perhaps related to or derived from kaws (“to gnaw”) somehow?
* Heimbach considers the "sprout" meaning as a semantic extension of the "fang" meaning, owing to their similar shapes.”

#### Noun

kaus (classifier: tus)
* a fang, tusk, beak

##### Derived terms

* hniav kaus dev (“the canines (teeth)”)
* kaus ncauj (“the beak of a bird”)
* kaus ntxhw (“elephant tusk; ivory”)

#### Classifier

kaus
* classifier for bites or bitefuls
    Dev tom nws ib kaug. ― The dog bit him once.
    rau kaus mov ― six bitefuls of rice

#### Noun

kaus (classifier: tus)
* a sprout or young shoot from a plant
    kaus nplej ― a rice shoot
    kaus pob kws ― a corn shoot

### Etymology 2

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Same origin as Etymology 4 (bamboo hat)? Alternatively, borrowed from Thai กลด (glòt, “ceremonial umbrella”) or Lao ກົດ (kot, “id”)?”

#### Noun

kaus (classifier: lub)
* umbrella, parasol
    Nws nqa ib lub kaus mus teb. ― He carried an umbrella to the fields.

### Etymology 3

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Borrowed from Chinese 摳／抠 (kōu, “to dig out, carve”), 刳 (kū, “to dig, scoop out”), or Middle Chinese 抉 (MC kwet|'wet, “to gouge, dig out”)? Or is it an independent Hmongic formation, perhaps of sound-symbolic origin?”

#### Verb

kaus
* to gouge out, scrape with a gouging motion
    kaus av ― to gouge the earth, scrape up earth
    kaus qhov muag ― gouge the eye

### Etymology 4

From Proto-Hmong *kuwᴰ (“bamboo hat”).

#### Noun

kaus
* used in kaus mom (“hat, cap”)

### References

* Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 78.
* ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25
* ↑ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 275.