köken: Inherited from Middle French chose, from Old French chose, from Latin causa. Compare Italian cosa, Portuguese coisa, Spanish cosa among many others. Compare cause, a borrowed doublet.
aile: à peu de choses près, autre chose, avant toutes choses, c'est la moindre des choses, chose du passé, chose jugée, chose promise, chose due, chose-bine, chosifier, chosisme
köken: From Proto-Iranian *čiš-čid / *čiš-čit, from Proto-Iranian *čiš + a suffix *čit of unknown, possibly reduplicative, origin. The former component is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kíš, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷís, *kʷos (“who, which, what”).
köken: From *neme / *nämä "what", from Proto-Turkic *nē- (“what”). -me is an interrogative formant. Doublet of нәмә (nəmə). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (nemä, “something”); Kyrgyz неме (neme, “something”), Kyrgyz эмне (emne, “what?”), Turkmen näme (“what?”), Uzbek nima, Uyghur نېمە (nëme), نىمە (nime, “what?”), Khakas ниме (nime, “what?”), Shor небе (“thing”), etc.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷís Proto-Indo-European *kʷídder. Proto-Slavic *česo Old Polish co Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ís Proto-Indo-European *ḱís Proto-Balto-Slavic *śís Proto-Slavic *sьder. Old Polish -ś Old Polish coś Polish coś Inherited from Old Polish coś. By surface analysis, co + -ś. Compare Kashubian cos and Slovincian cesz.
something (inanimate singular) · a little, a bit · somethings, some people (animate/inanimate plural (some))
köken: From Old Hindi कछु (kachu) undergoing metathesis, from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑀺𑀁𑀘𑀺 (kiṃci); see there for more. Cognate with Bengali কিছু (kichu) and Punjabi ਕੁਝ (kujh). Originally the neuter nominative singular form of a paradigm whose masculine form became कोई (koī) and genitive form became किसी (kisī). See 𑀓𑁄𑀇 (koi) and 𑀓𑀲𑁆𑀲𑀇 (kassaï) for more.