osu

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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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From Vulgar Latin *ussus, from Latin ursus. Compare Spanish and Galician oso, Old Portuguese usso.

Pronunciation

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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

References

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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

Anagrams

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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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Romanization

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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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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osù

  1. moon

Romanian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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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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Pronunciation

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Verb

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osu

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

Conjugation

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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