kist meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

kist

verbalso spelled Kist

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

Scotland To place in a coffin.

noun

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

Synonym of Nakh, a Caucasian people, particularly the Nakh living in Georgia.

noun

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

Scotland A chest.

the spear he killed the gryphon with was locked in a kist there, or so some said […]1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair; 1), page 17:

Scotland A coffin.

Archaeology, History, Human sciences, Sciences Alternative Alternative form of cist (“crypt”).

The global library of ice has become a cracked kist, a broken storehouse leaking its contents.2020, David Farrier, “The Library of Babel”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:

noun

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

British, India An individual installment of the yearly land revenue.

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