kist

See also: Kist

English

Etymology 1

Verb

kist

1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of kiss.
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, The Pomander Bracelet:

     To me my Julia lately sent
     A Bracelet richly Redolent
     The Beads I kist, but most lov'd her
     That did perfume the Pomander.

Derived terms

• cornkister
• kistful
• unkist

Etymology 2

Possibly borrowed from Old Norse kista (“chest”); but see also English cist (“crypt”).

Noun

kist (plural kists)

1. (Scotland) A chest.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair; 1), page 17:

     the spear he killed the gryphon with was locked in a kist there, or so some said […]

2. (Scotland) A coffin.
3. (archaeology) Alternative form of cist (“crypt”).
   • 2020, David Farrier, “The Library of Babel”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:

     The global library of ice has become a cracked kist, a broken storehouse leaking its contents.

Verb

kist (third-person singular simple present kists, present participle kisting, simple past and past participle kisted)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To place in a coffin.

Derived terms

• kist o' whistles

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Hindustani قِسْط (qisṭ, “installment”) / क़िस्त (qist), from Arabic قِسْط (qisṭ, literally “quota”).

Noun

kist (plural kists)

1. (British India) An individual installment of the yearly land revenue.

Related terms

• kistbandi

Further reading

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “kist”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 486.

Anagrams

• kits, skit, tisk

Cornish

Etymology

From Old English cist or Middle English kist. Compare Welsh cist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkist/

Noun

kist f (plural kistyow)

1. (container) box

   Synonym: boks

Derived terms

• jakka y'n gist (“jack-in-the-box”)
• kist lytherow (“letterbox”)
• kisten (“small box, cartridge”)
• kisten baper (“paper cartridge”)
• kisten danbren (“matchbox”)
• kisten liwyow (“paint box”)
• kisten ynk (“ink cartridge”)

Mutation

Mutation of kist

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
kist	gist	hist	unchanged	unchanged	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɪst/

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• Hyphenation: kist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch kiste, from Old Dutch *kista, from Proto-West Germanic *kistu, from Latin cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh₂.

Noun

kist f or m (plural kisten, diminutive kistje n)

1. a box, chest

   Synonym: koffer

2. a coffin

   Synonyms: doodskist, lijkkist

3. (aviation, informal) an aeroplane
4. (informal) a boot or large shoe, especially an army boot

Derived terms

• kisten (verb)

- chest types

• bondskist
• doodskist
• gereedschapskist
• hooikist
• juwelenkist
• kistrijder
• legerkist
• lijkkist
• schatkist
• sigarenkist
• soldatenkist
• zeepkist

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kis
• Berbice Creole Dutch: kesi
• Negerhollands: kist
• → Munsee: kusht
• → Sranan Tongo: kisi
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: kisi
  • → Saramaccan: kési

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

kist

1. inflection of kisten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Anagrams

• stik

Middle English

Noun

kist

1. alternative form of cheste (“chest”)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian кисть (kistʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kîst/

Noun

kȉst m inan (Cyrillic spelling ки̏ст)

1. A brush.

Declension

Declension of kist

	singular	plural
nominative	kȉst	kìstovi
genitive	kista	kistova
dative	kistu	kistovima
accusative	kist	kistove
vocative	kiste	kistovi
locative	kistu	kistovima
instrumental	kistom	kistovima

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French kyste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈcist/
• Hyphenation: kist

Noun

kist (definite accusative kisti, plural kistler)

1. (medicine) A cyst.

Declension

Declension of kist

singular plural nominative kist kistler definite accusative kisti kistleri dative kiste kistlere locative kistte kistlerde ablative kistten kistlerden genitive kistin kistlerin Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular kistim kistlerim 2nd singular kistin kistlerin 3rd singular kisti kistleri 1st plural kistimiz kistlerimiz 2nd plural kistiniz kistleriniz 3rd plural kistleri kistleri definite accusative singular plural 1st singular kistimi kistlerimi 2nd singular kistini kistlerini 3rd singular kistini kistlerini 1st plural kistimizi kistlerimizi 2nd plural kistinizi kistlerinizi 3rd plural kistlerini kistlerini dative singular plural 1st singular kistime kistlerime 2nd singular kistine kistlerine 3rd singular kistine kistlerine 1st plural kistimize kistlerimize 2nd plural kistinize kistlerinize 3rd plural kistlerine kistlerine locative singular plural 1st singular kistimde kistlerimde 2nd singular kistinde kistlerinde 3rd singular kistinde kistlerinde 1st plural kistimizde kistlerimizde 2nd plural kistinizde kistlerinizde 3rd plural kistlerinde kistlerinde ablative singular plural 1st singular kistimden kistlerimden 2nd singular kistinden kistlerinden 3rd singular kistinden kistlerinden 1st plural kistimizden kistlerimizden 2nd plural kistinizden kistlerinizden 3rd plural kistlerinden kistlerinden genitive singular plural 1st singular kistimin kistlerimin 2nd singular kistinin kistlerinin 3rd singular kistinin kistlerinin 1st plural kistimizin kistlerimizin 2nd plural kistinizin kistlerinizin 3rd plural kistlerinin kistlerinin Predicative forms singular plural 1st singular kistim kistlerim 2nd singular kistsin kistlersin 3rd singular kist kisttir kistler kistlerdir 1st plural kistiz kistleriz 2nd plural kistsiniz kistlersiniz 3rd plural kistler kistlerdir