Inherited fromOld East Slavicось(osĭ), fromProto-Slavic*osь(“axle”).
In the sense of "operating system", is an adaptation of the English acronymOS in the same sense.
ось• (osʹ) f inan (genitiveо́си,nominative pluralо́си,genitive pluralосе́й,relational adjectiveосево́й)
- axis
1967, “Song about Bears”, inКавка́зская пле́нница [Kidnapping, Caucasian Style][1] (film):Где́-тона бе́ломсве́те, /Та́м,гдевсегда́моро́з, /Тру́тсяспино́ймедве́ди /Оземну́юо́сь. /Ми́моплыву́т столе́тья, /Спя́тподольдо́м моря́, /Тру́тсяобо́сьмедве́ди, /Ве́ртитсяземля́.- Gdé-to na bélom svéte, / Tám, gde vsegdá moróz, / Trútsja spinój medvédi / O zemnújuósʹ. / Mímo plyvút stolétʹja, / Spját podo lʹdóm morjá, / Trútsja obósʹ medvédi, / Vértitsja zemljá.
- Somewhere in the world, / Where it is always cold, / Bears are rubbing their backs, / Against the earth'saxis. / The centuries are swimming by, / The seas are sleeping under the ice, / Bears are rubbing againstthe axis, / The earth is spinning.
- axle
- (computer slang)operating system
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ось”, inOleg Trubachyov, transl.,Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “ось”, inИсторико-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1(а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang.,→ISBN, page609
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “ось”, inМатеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments][2] (in Russian), volume 2(Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences,column752
- ось inБольшой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
A merger ofо(o) +се(se) which underwent subsequent reduction.[1] Cognate withBelarusianвось(vosʹ).
ось• (osʹ)
- here (is),this (is),there (is),that (is)
- Synonym:от(ot)
- ^Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2003), “ось”, inЕтимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 4(Н – П), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka,→ISBN
