| [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] coss = Old Frisian kos, Old Saxon cos, kus (Middle Dutch cus, cuss, Dutch kus), Old High German chus (Middle High German kus, kos, German kuss), Old Norse koss < Old Germanic *kuss-oz. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] cuss /kʊs/ was apparently [[developed]] < coss, as it [[appears]] to have had /ʊ/ not /ʏ/ , and occurs in [[texts]] which do not use cusse (cüsse) for the vb. The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#1500-present.09THE_MODERN_ENGLISH_PERIOD modern English] form (like Danish kys, Swedish kyss) is from the verb | | [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] coss = Old Frisian kos, Old Saxon cos, kus (Middle Dutch cus, cuss, Dutch kus), Old High German chus (Middle High German kus, kos, German kuss), Old Norse koss < Old Germanic *kuss-oz. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] cuss /kʊs/ was apparently [[developed]] < coss, as it [[appears]] to have had /ʊ/ not /ʏ/ , and occurs in [[texts]] which do not use cusse (cüsse) for the vb. The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#1500-present.09THE_MODERN_ENGLISH_PERIOD modern English] form (like Danish kys, Swedish kyss) is from the verb |