From Middle English costning, costnunge, from Old English costnung, from Old English costnian, variant of Old English costian, from Proto-Germanic *kustōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews-, equivalent to cost + -ing. Cognate with German kosten ("to taste"). Related to choose.
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