Description:

The term costo is primarily a noun.

Noun:

Costo refers to a building that is a small permanent dwelling. The most prototypical member of the class is a sturdily-built single-family house.

The derived form costohoro refers to a collection of houses or shacks, such as a small settlement or semi-permanent camp. It can also refer to some more permanent for-purpose constructions like labour camps.

The diminutive form 'costope' is a word for hut or shack.

Verb:

Costo can also be used like the English verb 'to house', as in to shelter or provide housing. When used in this fashion it is a transtive verb of the skurun paradigm and takes the verbal auxilliary te. The ergative subject is an agent obtaining housing for the absolutive patient.