otsu

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See also: Otsu, ōtsu, and Ōtsu

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Japanese (second).

Adjective

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otsu (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) In Old Japanese, one of two sets of vowels of uncertain pronunciation which fell together in modern Japanese.
    • 1991, Christopher Seeley, A History of Writing in Japan:
      Later—during the ninth century—the and otsu groups did come to be used interchangeably.
    • 2001, John R. Bentley, A Descriptive Grammar of Early Old Japanese Prose:
      He rejects the claim of Matsumoto (1984) that the and otsu -o- vowels are in complementary distribution, and therefore these two vowels are allophones of a single vowel.

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Anagrams

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Japanese

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Romanization

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otsu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of おつ

Turkish

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Etymology

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From ot (grass) +‎ -su (-ish).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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otsu (botany)

  1. herbaceous
    Synonym: otsul
    Antonym: odunsu

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