osu

See also: OSU, ošu, oṣu, and -osu

Akan

Pronunciation

• (Akuapem) Tone: LH

Noun

osu

1. rain

   Synonym: (Fante) nyankom

2. (Akuapem) weeping, wail
3. rain cloud

   osu amuna ― it is cloudy

Asturian

Alternative forms

• oso
• usu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos

Proto-Italic *orssos

Latin ursus

Asturian osu

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ussus, from Latin ursus. Compare Galician and Spanish oso, Portuguese urso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈosu/ [ˈo.su]
• Rhymes: -osu
• Syllabification: o‧su

Noun

osu m sg (feminine singular osa, masculine plural osos, feminine plural oses)

1. bear

Further reading

• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “osu”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “osu”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN

Fala

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈosu/
• Rhymes: -osu
• Syllabification: o‧su

Noun

osu m (plural osus)

1. (anatomy) bone

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[3], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Finnish

Verb

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

• suo

Istro-Romanian

Noun

osu n

1. definite singular of os The bone

Japanese

Romanization

osu

1. Rōmaji transcription of おす

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese osso.

Noun

osu

1. bone

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈoː.suː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.s̬u]

Verb

ōsū

1. ablative supine of ōdī

Latvian

Noun

osu f

1. inflection of osa:
   1. accusative/instrumental singular
   2. genitive plural

Leonese

Etymology

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Noun

osu m (plural osos)

1. bear

References

• “osu”, in Diccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano [Spanish-Leonese / Leonese-Spanish Dictionary] (in Spanish), La Asociación L'Alderique, 2012–2025

Loloda

Etymology

Reconstructible to Proto-Galela-Tobelo (Proto-Northeast Halmaheran), likely as *osu; compare Galela osu, Tabaru 'ohu, Tobelo ohu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.su/

Noun

osu

1. earthquake

References

• M. J. van Baarda (1904), Het Lòda'sch, in vergelijking met het Galėla'sch dialect op Halmaheira

Olukumi

Etymology

From Proto-Yoruboid *ó-cù, cognate with Igala ochu, Yoruba ochù, Yoruba oṣù, Yoruba osù

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ō.sù/

Noun

osù

1. moon

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.su/

Noun

osu n

1. eye dialect spelling of osul
2. archaic spelling of osul
3. nonstandard spelling of osul

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

osu (Cyrillic spelling осу)

1. accusative singular of osa

Slovak

Noun

osu

1. accusative singular of osa

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.s̪u/

Verb

osu

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

Conjugation

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

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[4], Pacific linguistics