Kist

name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A chest. Scotland

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

  2. 2
    An individual installment of the yearly land revenue. British, India
  3. 3
    Synonym of Nakh, a Caucasian people, particularly the Nakh living in Georgia.
  4. 4
    A coffin. Scotland
  5. 5
    Alternative form of cist (“crypt”). alt-of, alternative

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

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of kiss. form-of, obsolete, participle, past

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

  2. 2
    To place in a coffin. Scotland, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

Possibly borrowed from Old Norse kista (“chest”); but see also English cist (“crypt”). Doublet of cesta, chest, and kesh

Etymology 2

Possibly borrowed from Old Norse kista (“chest”); but see also English cist (“crypt”). Doublet of cesta, chest, and kesh

Etymology 3

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

Etymology 4

From the root of Georgian ქისტები (kisṭebi, “Ingush”).

Etymology 5

From the German surname, named after the town Kist in Würzburg. Also a Westphalian German Low German spelling variant of Kirst.

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