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costning

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
cost-ning
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Temptation.

British usage

Etymology

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.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: costning, costnung, costnian, costian, *kustōną, *ǵews-
  • Suffix: cost

Usage

Frequently Paired Words

cost costen

Questions

What does costning mean?
Temptation.
Where does costning come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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