costning

Betekenis (Engels)

Temptation.

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: costning

Geërf van Old English: costnung

Verwante met Duits: kosten

In summary

From Middle English costning, costnunge, from Old English costnung (“temptation, testing, trial, tribulation”), from Old English costnian, variant of Old English costian (“to tempt, try, prove, examine”), from Proto-Germanic *kustōną (“to try, taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to enjoy, taste”), equivalent to cost + -ing. Cognate with German kosten (“to taste”). Related to choose.