kis

From Dutch kist, from Middle Dutch kiste, from Proto-Germanic *kistō, from Latin cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh₂.

kis (plural kiste, diminutive kissie)

1. chest, box

kis

1. cheese

• 2000, Matteo Giulio Bartoli, Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.

kis c (singular definite kisen, not used in plural form)

1. sulfide mineral

kis

1. used to attract a cat, often repeated

   kis kis, kippurahäntä

   here, kitty, kitty, "curly-tail"

• -ksi

From a Turkic language, compare to Turkish küçük and Turkmen kiçi.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkiʃ]

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kis (comparative kisebb, superlative legkisebb)

1. small, little

   Synonyms: kicsi, -ka, -ke, -cska, -cske, -ikó (the meaning of ’little’ is often expressed with diminutive suffixes in Hungarian)

• kissé

Kis can only stand before a noun but never on its own. If it were to stand on its own (as a predicate, or a short reference to a noun phrase with this quality), kicsi must be used instead. (Note that the same syntactic difference exists between két and kettő in Hungarian, both of which mean 'two'.) Their distribution is comparable to that of "sick" and "ill" in English: "they are ill" (cf. kettő, kicsi, when used on their own) vs. "sick people" (cf. két, kis, i.e. used before a noun).

Akin to Finnish ken.

kis

1. who

From Swedish kis (sense 1), and German Kies (sense 2)

• IPA^(key): /kiːs/
• Rhymes: -iːs

kis m (definite singular kisen, indefinite plural kiser, definite plural kisene)

1. (slang) guy, dude
2. (mineralogy) pyrite

• svovelkis

• “kis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “kis_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “kis_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Swedish kis (sense 1), and German Kies (sense 2)

kis m (definite singular kisen, indefinite plural kisar, definite plural kisane)

1. (slang) guy, dude
2. (mineralogy) pyrite

• svovelkis

• “kis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Back-formation of kísel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkíːs/
• Tonal orthography: kȋs

kís m inan (genitive kísa, uncountable)

1. vinegar

• ócet (archaic)

From English kiss.

kis

1. kiss

kis

1. what? (nominative, interrogative)