osier

See also: Osier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French osier (“basket willow, withy”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊzɪə/, /ˈəʊʒə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊʒəɹ/
• Rhymes: -əʊʒə(ɹ)

Noun

osier (countable and uncountable, plural osiers)

1. A willow, of species Salix viminalis, growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America, considered the best willow for wickerwork.

   Synonym: common osier

2. (loosely) Any kind of willow.
3. (countable, uncountable) Long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.
   • 1906, E. Nesbit, The Story of the Amulet:

     She pulled half a dozen fine fish out of the water within the reeds, killing each as she took it out, and threading it on a long osier that she carried. Then she knotted the osier, hung it on her arm, picked up the pitcher, and turned to come back.

   • 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 188:

     Wattling consists of a row of upright stakes the spaces between which are more or less filled by interweaving small branches, hazel rods, osiers, reeds, thin strips of wood, or other pliant material.

Derived terms

• osiered
• osierlike
• osiery
• red osier
• red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea)

Translations

plant

• Bashkir: тал (tal)
• Bulgarian: ракита (bg) f (rakita)
• Catalan: vimetera f
• Czech: vrba košíkářská f
• Dutch: katwilg (nl) m
• Finnish: koripaju (fi)
• French: saule des vanniers (fr) m
• Galician: vimieiro (gl) m, vimbieira (gl) f, xalce m, sarga f, trogalleiro m, brimial m, xarxeira f
• German: Korb-Weide f
• Greek: λυγαριά (el) f (lygariá)

  Ancient: οἶσος m (oîsos)

• Icelandic: körfuvíðir m
• Irish: saileánach m
• Italian: vimini
• Latin: vīmen n
• Macedonian: ракита f (rakita)
• Portuguese: vimeiro (pt) m
• Romanian: răchită (ro) f, mlajă (ro) f
• Russian: и́ва прутовидная f (íva prutovidnaja)
• Spanish: mimbre (es) m or f, mimbrera f, mimbrera blanca f
• Swedish: korgvide c

twig

• Czech: houžev (cs) f
• Finnish: koripaju (fi)
• Galician: vime m, vimbio (gl) m, bringa f, buíño m, guineita f, guimia f, trogallo m, brime m
• Italian: vimine (it) m
• Portuguese: vime (pt) m
• Romanian: mlajă (ro) f
• Russian: и́ва (ru) f (íva)
• Scottish Gaelic: gad m
• Spanish: mimbre (es) m

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• Breton: ^{(please verify)} aozilh (br)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 버들 (ko) (beodeul), ^{(please verify)} 버드나무 (ko) (beodeunamu)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} vimen n
• Norman: ^{(please verify)} ôsyi m (Jersey)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} rakita (sh) f

Anagrams

• EROIs, rosie, sorie, Siero, Rosie, Ieros

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French osier, hosier, hosyere (compare Medieval Latin ausēria (“willow-bed”)), from Frankish *halster (compare Low German Halster, Hilster (“bay willow”)), according to Pokorny, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el- (“brownish, red”) or *h₂élis- (“alder”).

Alternatively from Medieval Latin ausēria (“willow-bed”), from Gaulish *awesā (“riverbed”) (compare Breton aoz (“riverbed”)), from Proto-Celtic *auos (“river”) (presumably related to Proto-Germanic *ahwō), which could also be present in the French place name Avoise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.zje/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

osier m (plural osiers)

1. (countable) osier (tree)
2. (uncountable) wicker
3. (tree) willow

Derived terms

• osier fleuri

Related terms

• oseraie

Further reading

• “osier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• seoir, seroi