costning

Significat (Anglès)

Temptation.

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: costning

Heretat de anglès antic: costnung

Cognat amb alemany: 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.