See also: OSU, ošu, oṣu, and -osu

Akan

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Pronunciation

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  • (Akuapem) Tone: LH[1]

Noun

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osu

  1. rain[2][1]
    Synonym: (Fante) nyankom
  2. (Akuapem) weeping, wail[1]
  3. rain cloud[2]
    osu amunait is cloudy[2][1]

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kotey, Paul A. (1998). Twi-English/English-Twi Dictionary. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Christaller, Johann Gottlieb (1881) “o-su”, in A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi (Chwee, Tw̌i)[1], Basel, page 458

Asturian

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ussus, from Latin ursus. Compare Galician and Spanish oso, Portuguese urso.

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    Noun

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    osu m (plural osos)

    1. bear

    Fala

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    Etymology

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    From Old Galician-Portuguese osso, from Latin ossum, popular variant of os (bone), from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (bone), *h₂óst.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈosu/
    • Rhymes: -osu
    • Syllabification: o‧su

    Noun

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    osu m (plural osus)

    1. (anatomy) bone

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    • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)[2], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

    Finnish

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    Verb

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    osu

    1. inflection of osua:
      1. present active indicative connegative
      2. second-person singular present imperative
      3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

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    Istro-Romanian

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    Noun

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    osu n

    1. definite singular of os The bone

    Japanese

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    osu

    1. Rōmaji transcription of おす

    Kabuverdianu

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    Etymology

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    From Portuguese osso.

    Noun

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    osu

    1. bone

    Latvian

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    Noun

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    osu f

    1. inflection of osa:
      1. accusative/instrumental singular
      2. genitive plural

    Leonese

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    Etymology

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    (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

    Noun

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    osu m (plural osos)

    1. bear

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    Olukumi

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    Etymology

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    From Proto-Yoruboid *ó-cù, cognate with Igala ochu, Yoruba ochù, Yoruba oṣù, Yoruba osù

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    Noun

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    osù

    1. moon

    Romanian

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    osu n

    1. Eye dialect spelling of osul.
    2. Archaic spelling of osul.
    3. Nonstandard spelling of osul.

    Serbo-Croatian

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    Noun

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    osu (Cyrillic spelling осу)

    1. accusative singular of osa

    Slovak

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    Noun

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    osu

    1. accusative singular of osa

    West Makian

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    osu

    1. (intransitive) to get up, to rise (from sitting)
    2. (intransitive) to get up, to wake up (from sleep)

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    Conjugation of osu (action verb)
    singular plural
    inclusive exclusive
    1st person toosu moosu aosu
    2nd person noosu foosu
    3rd person inanimate iosu doosu
    animate
    imperative noosu, osu foosu, osu

    References

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    • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[3], Pacific linguistics