kuis

Significado (Inglês)

Adj

chaste, morally pure, clean, virgin

Noun

a cleansing, cleaning(-up)

Noun

1. (feminine, regional) a (bovine) calf, notably under 9 months old
2. (feminine, regional) a pig

Noun

a (playing) marble

Verb

1. (first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singular) inflection of kuisen:
2. (form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular) inflection of kuisen:
3. (form-of, imperative) inflection of kuisen:

Noun

club, knobstick

Sinônimos

eerbaar

rein

zedig

bescheiden

discreet

terughoudend

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/kœy̯s/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de holandês médio: cuusch

Cognato com inglês: conscious

Cognato com alemão: keusch

Herdado de holandês médio: cuse

Cognato com Middle Low German: kuse

In summary

From Middle Dutch cuusch (“chaste”), from Latin conscius (“conscious”), a compound of com- (“together”) + scire (“to know”). Cognate with English conscious, German keusch.