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Icelandic
Etymology
From the Old Norse kös (“a heap, a pile”).[1] Compare the Nynorsk kos and kas and a dialectal Swedish kas,[1] possibly related to the Latin agger (“a rampart, a bulwark; a dam; a heap, a pile”), congeriēs (“a heap, a pile, a mass; a collection, an accumulation”) and gerō (“I carry, I bear”).[1]
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Noun
kös f (genitive singular kasar, nominative plural kasir)
- a pile (e.g. of stones, blubber or the like)
- a heap of fish
- (computing) a heap; a large pool of unused memory whence dynamic memory is allocated[2]
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Salar
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *kȫŕ. Compare to Tuvan көс (kös), etc.
Noun
kös (3rd person possessive , plural )
- coal
Swedish
Noun
kös
- indefinite genitive singular of kö
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