osier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French osier (“basket willow, withy”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French osier, hosier, hosyere (compare Medieval Latin ausēria (“willow-bed”)), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *halster (compare Low German Halster, Hilster (“bay willow”)). Alternatively from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin ausēria (“willow-bed”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Gaulish *awesā (“riverbed”) (compare Breton aoz (“riverbed”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈəʊzɪə/, /ˈəʊʒə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈoʊʒəɹ/

Noun

osier (plural osiers)

1. A kind of willow, , growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow.
2. One of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.
   • 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, p. 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

• red osier dogwood

Translations

plant

• Bashkir: тал (tal)
• Catalan: vimetera 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
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: λυγαριά (el) f (lygariá)

  Ancient: οἶσος m (oîsos)

• Icelandic: körfuvíðir m
• Italian: vimini
• Portuguese: vimeiro (pt) m
• 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 m, bringa f, buíño m, guineita f, guimia f, trogallo m, brime m
• Italian: vimine (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: vime (pt) m
• Russian: и́ва (ru) f (íva)
• Scottish Gaelic: gad m
• Spanish: mimbre (es) m

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Translations to be checked

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

Anagrams

• Rosie, sorie

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French osier, hosier, hosyere (compare Medieval Latin ausēria (“willow-bed”)), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *halster (compare Low German Halster, Hilster (“bay willow”)). Alternatively from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin ausēria (“willow-bed”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Gaulish *awesā (“riverbed”) (compare Breton aoz (“riverbed”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.zje/

• Audio:

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Noun

osier m (plural osiers)

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

Derived terms

• oseraie

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• seoir, seroi