costning

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ǵews-“to enjoy, taste”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*kustōną“to try, taste”
3. Old English · derived fromcostian“to tempt, try, prove, examine”
4. Old English · derived fromcostnian
5. Old English · inherited fromcostnung“temptation, testing, trial, tribulation”
6. Middle English · inherited fromcostning
7. English todaycostning

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.

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