Etymology
1. From Middle English chesen, from Old English ċēosan (“to choose, seek out, select, elect, decide, test, accept, settle for, approve”), from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną (“to test; to choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwseti (“to choose, taste”), from *ǵews- (“to taste, try”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Saterland Frisian kjoze (“to choose”), West Frisian kieze (“to choose”), Dutch kiezen (“to choose”), Low German kesen (“to choose”), German kiesen (“to choose”), Danish kyse (“to frighten”), Faroese and Icelandic kjósa (“to vote; to elect; to choose; to prefer”), Norwegian Nynorsk kjosa, kjose (“to choose”), Swedish tjusa (“to charm; to bewitch”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (kiusan, “to test”), French choisir (“to choose”); also Breton diuz (“to choose”), Cornish and Welsh dewis (“to choose”), Latin gustō (“to taste, sample”), Ancient Greek γεύω (geúō, “to feed; to taste; to eat; to try; to enjoy”), Czech zkoušet (“to taste; to examine; to rehearse”), Polish kuszać (“to eat”), Russian кушать (kušatʹ, “to have a meal, to eat”), Serbo-Croatian ку̏шати, kȕšati (“to taste; to test”), Ukrainian ку́шати (kúšaty, “to taste; to eat”), куштува́ти (kuštuváty, “to taste”), Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬊𐬱𐬀 (zaoša, “pleasure”), Baluchi and Pashto دوست (dost, “friend”), Northern Kurdish and Zazaki dost (“friend”), Persian دوسْت (dōst / dust, “friend; boyfriend or girlfriend; loved”), Sanskrit जुषते (juṣate, “to enjoy”). See: Middle English '
chesen', Proto-Germanic '
*keusaną', Proto-Indo-European '
*ǵéwseti', Frisian, Saterlandic 'kjoze', Dutch '
kiezen', Low Saxon 'kesen', German, old spelling '
kiesen', Danish '
kyse', Norwegian, nynorsk '
kjosa', Swedish '
tjusa', French '
choisir', Breton '
diuz', Latin '
gustō', Czech '
zkoušet', Russian '
кушать', Ukrainian '
ку́шати', Sanskrit '
जुषते'.
Verbs referencing "choose"
Albanian
dua, German, old spelling
auserkiesen, German, old spelling
kiesen, Low Saxon kesen, Galician
cousir, Swedish
tjusa, Norwegian, nynorsk
kjosa, Frisian, Saterlandic kjoze.