Kós

Verb vt.

Translations

Français: Couper
English: Cut, to
العربية: يقطع

Source : the site’s first dictionary (Swadesh list)

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). Kós (Cut, to). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/207-kos (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctardocument,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{Kós (Cut, to)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/207-kos},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… sp) áaɣar paille (sp) agírid grenier aɣíri tache blanche (sur chien) yírgǝm être contrarié yírɣǝm prévenir yáhag durer yáhaɣ dépouiller de biens q/k qóq sécher kós couper lǝqǝm renforcer lǝkǝm suivre yíqbǝl accepter (prières) yíkbǝl supporter abáaleq poussière t(a)séelǝk jeune fille k/c karáy ball caráy ami keedí monter ceedí cuillère

Ag Abdoussalam (s. d.), Structure grammaticale d’un parler berbéro-songhay du nord-est malien (tadaksahak) : éléments de linguistique, p. 7
… Glue the thing here for me!’ (18) Taɣmen i-Ø-m-(y)edɣer. sandals 3p-TAM-REC-be.glued ‘The sandals are glued together.’ (19) Se-m-(y)edɣer aɣay aɣan taɣmen, i-Ø-kos. CAUS-REC-be.glued 1s 1s.GEN sandals 3p-TAM-break ‘Glue my sandals together (for me); they have fallen apart.’ Songhay (Gao) Tadaksahak Tamasheq cendi ‘to pull’ yirkeb ‘to pull’ ǝrkǝb ‘to pull’ serkeb ‘to make sb pull’ nerkeb ‘to pull (from) each other’ nemerkeb ‘to pull sth between sb’

Christiansen & Christiansen (2002), Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or: Berber or Songhay, this is the question, p. 7
… verbs listed in the appendix in the first column can also be used as nouns. (40) dida ‘to walk / the walking’ cena ‘to be small / smallness / younger sibling’ kos ‘to break / to be broken / the breaking’ korra ‘to heat / to be hot / the heat’ To summarize we can recall the facts: The causative morpheme used in Tadaksahak is of Berber origin and prefixed to the verb root as in Berber languages. The same is true for the morphemes of passive voice, reflexive, and reciprocal. On …

Christiansen & Christiansen (2002), Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or: Berber or Songhay, this is the question, p. 10
… tly herb, sp. father-in-law infection forgetfulness fonio, sp. rain to find leather / skin support to point jeejí jinán ijíiman ɣáafaf áaɣar aɣíri yírɣǝm yáhaɣ kós lǝkǝm yíkbǝl t(a)séelǝk caráy ceedí arcíni tǝgmací hánʃi sǝlhá íhayan to hang up luggage thousands (pl) striped polecat straw, sp. white spot (on dog) to warn to ransack to cut following (n) to support young woman friend spoon hyena alphabet dog make cry descendants to be bad to pull to pour canister star to borrow …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 28
… root báq gloss to break duplicated gloss to split (into many small pieces) káy to stand káykay to stroll (stop many times) háw to attach háwhaw to attach many kós to cut koskós to cut in pieces mún to throw out munmún to throw out (repeatedly) cidáy to be red cidícidi to be very red kóoray to be white korókoray to be very white ceená to be small cinícina to be very small báqbaq The disyllabic roots shown in (b) above reduplicate the initial CVC. A copy vowel is inserted to l …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 86

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