cough
English
/kɒf/, /kɔːf/, /kɔf/, /kɑf/
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.
- (transitive) To force something out of the throat or lungs by coughing.
- (intransitive) To make a noise like a cough.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English coughen inherited from Old English *cohhian derived from Proto-Germanic *kuh- (cough).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*kuh-
Gloss
cough
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anticough English
- cougher English
- coughest English
- cougheth English
- coughless English
- coughlessness English
- coughwort English
- coughy English
- whooping English
- whooping cough English
- wort English
- kuchen Dutch, Flemish
- *kuh- Proto-Germanic
- *cohhian Old English
- coughen Middle English
- cuchen Middle Dutch
- kīchen Middle High German
- käichen Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch