osu
- rain[2][1]
- Synonym:(Fante)nyankom
- (Akuapem)weeping,wail[1]
- rain cloud[2]
- osuamuna ―it iscloudy[2][1]
- ↑1.01.11.21.3Kotey, Paul A. (1998),Twi-English/English-Twi Dictionary[1], New York: Hippocrene Books,→ISBN
- ↑2.02.12.2Christaller, Johann Gottlieb (1881), “o-su”, inA Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi (Chwee, Tw̌i)[2], Basel,page458
Inherited fromVulgar Latin*ussus, fromLatinursus. CompareGalician andSpanishoso,Portugueseurso.
- IPA(key): /ˈosu/[ˈo.su]
- Rhymes:-osu
- Syllabification:o‧su
osu m sg (feminine singularosa,masculine pluralosos,feminine pluraloses)
- bear
- Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “osu”, inDiccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana,→ISBN
- “osu”, inDiccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición,Academia de la Llingua Asturiana,2000,→ISBN
FromOld Galician-Portugueseosso, fromLatinossum, popular variant ofos(“bone”), fromProto-Italic*ōs, ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*h₃ésth₁(“bone”),*h₂óst.
osu m (pluralosus)
- (anatomy)bone
- Valeš, Miroslav (2021),Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)[3], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published2022,→ISBN
osu
- inflection ofosua:
- presentactiveindicativeconnegative
- second-personsingularpresentimperative
- second-personsingularpresentactiveimperativeconnegative
osu n
- definitesingular ofos Thebone
osu
- Rōmaji transcription ofおす
FromPortugueseosso.
osu
- bone
ōsū
- ablativesupine ofōdī
osu f
- inflection ofosa:
- accusative/instrumentalsingular
- genitiveplural
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osu m (pluralosos)
- bear
- “osu”, inDiccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano [Spanish-Leonese / Leonese-Spanish Dictionary] (in Spanish), La Asociación L'Alderique, 2012–2025
Reconstructible to Proto-Galela-Tobelo (Proto-Northeast Halmaheran), likely as*osu; compareGalelaosu,Tabaru'ohu,Tobeloohu.
osu
- earthquake
- M. J. van Baarda (1904),Het Lòda'sch, in vergelijking met het Galėla'sch dialect op Halmaheira
FromProto-Yoruboid*ó-cù, cognate withIgalaochu,Yorubaochù,Yorubaoṣù,Yorubaosù
osù
- moon
osu n
- eye dialect spelling ofosul
- archaic spelling ofosul
- nonstandard spelling ofosul
osu (Cyrillic spellingосу)
- accusativesingular ofosa
osu
- accusativesingular ofosa
osu
- (intransitive) toget up, torise (from sitting)
- (intransitive) toget up, towake up (from sleep)
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982),The Makian languages and their neighbours[4], Pacific linguistics
