uosso

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin ossum, popular variant of os. Compare Dalmatian vuas, Venetan oso, Italian osso, Friulian vues, Romansch ies, oss.

Noun

uosso m

1. bone
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 128:

     E ch’el me ruseghisso incheînt’a l’uosso;

     And that he would nibble me to the bone;

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin ossum, popular variant of os, ossis, from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst.

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈwoss(ə)], (plural) [ˈɔssə̆]

Noun

uosso m (plural ossa)

1. bone

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 90: “le ossa; un osso” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Ledgeway, Adam (2009) Grammatica diacronica del napoletano, Tübingen: Niemeyer, page 146
• Andreoli, Raffaele (1887) “uosso”, in Vocabolario napoletano-italiano (in Italian), page 758