óss

See also: Appendix:Variations of "oss"

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ōsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éh₁os (“mouth”). Cognate with Latin ōs (“mouth”), Sanskrit आस् (ās).

Noun

óss m (genitive óss, plural ósar)

1. (of a river) mouth

   Synonym: mynni

Declension

Declension of óss (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	óss	óssinn	ósar	ósarnir
accusative	ós	ósinn	ósa	ósana
dative	ósi	ósinum	ósum	ósunum
genitive	óss	óssins	ósa	ósanna

Derived terms

• árós
• Nidaros

Descendants

• Icelandic: ós
• Norwegian Nynorsk: os m or n
• Norwegian Bokmål: os m or n
• Swedish: os n

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “óss”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 325; also available at the Internet Archive