cosyn

• cosin, cossyn, cousyn, cosyne, kosyn, cousine

From Old French cosin (and feminine cosine), inherited from Latin cōnsobrīnus.

• IPA^(key): /kuˈziːn/, /ˈkuzin/, /ˈkoːzin/

cosyn (plural cosyns)

1. A member of one's family; one's partner, relative or their partner:
   1. One's progeny; those who descend from one's lineage.
   2. A nibling (niece or nephew); a child of one's brother or sister
   3. One's direct cousin; a child of one's aunt or uncle.
   4. (rare) Something bearing similarity to something else.

• cosynage

• English: cousin
• Scots: kizzen (Shetlandic cüshin)
• Yola: cozeen

• “cǒsī̆n(e, cọ̄sī̆n(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 30 November 2018.

caws (“cheese”) +‎ -yn (diminutive suffix).

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔsɨ̞n/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔsɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɔsɨ̞n

cosyn m (plural cosynnau)

1. (countable) a cheese
   • 2021, Cathi McGill, Het Wellt a Welis: Blwyddyn Gron yn Astwrias, Carreg Gwalch, page 30:

     Yn ardal Gamonéu a bwlch Covadonga, uwchlaw'r llynnoedd, cwrddais i â gwraig oedd yn ei hwythdegau bryd hynny, yn byw mewn caban heb ddŵr na thrydan, ffynnon o flaen y drws a thân yn llosgi'n barhaol o dan simnai fawr. Ar y silffoedd o garreg, caws. Cosyn ar ôl cosyn yn aeddfedu yn y mwg.

     In the Gamonéu and Covadonga pass region, above the lakes, I met a woman who was in her eighties at the time, living in a cabin without water or electricity, a well in front of the door and a fire constantly burning under a large chimney. On the stone shelves, cheese. Cheese after cheese maturing in the smoke.

• twll yn ei gosyn (“disappointment”, literally “a hole in one's cheese”)

• caws (“cheese (countable)”)

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “cosyn”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “cosyn”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies