otsu

See also: otsü, Otsu, ōtsu, and Ōtsu

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 乙 (“second”).

Adjective

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 kō 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 kô and otsu -o- vowels are in complementary distribution, and therefore these two vowels are allophones of a single vowel.

See also

• otsu-rui
• kô/kō
• kô-otsu/kō-otsu

Anagrams

• Suto, SOTU, Tsou, tOSU, -tous, sout, OTUs, outs, oust

Japanese

Romanization

otsu

1. Rōmaji transcription of おつ

Turkish

Etymology

From ot (“grass”) +‎ -su (“-ish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /otˈsu/

Adjective

otsu (botany)

1. herbaceous

   Synonym: otsul

   Antonym: odunsu

Declension

Predicative forms of otsu

present tense
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (I am)	otsuyum	otsu muyum?
sen (you are)	otsusun	otsu musun?
o (he/she/it is)	otsu / otsudur	otsu mu?
biz (we are)	otsuyuz	otsu muyuz?
siz (you are)	otsusunuz	otsu musunuz?
onlar (they are)	otsu(lar)	otsu(lar) mı?
past tense
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (I was)	otsuydum	otsu muydum?
sen (you were)	otsuydun	otsu muydun?
o (he/she/it was)	otsuydu	otsu muydu?
biz (we were)	otsuyduk	otsu muyduk?
siz (you were)	otsuydunuz	otsu muydunuz?
onlar (they were)	otsuydular	otsu muydular?
indirect past
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (I was)	otsuymuşum	otsu muymuşum?
sen (you were)	otsuymuşsun	otsu muymuşsun?
o (he/she/it was)	otsuymuş	otsu muymuş?
biz (we were)	otsuymuşuz	otsu muymuşuz?
siz (you were)	otsuymuşsunuz	otsu muymuşsunuz?
onlar (they were)	otsuymuşlar	otsu muymuşlar?
conditional
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (if I)	otsuysam	otsu muysam?
sen (if you)	otsuysan	otsu muysan?
o (if he/she/it)	otsuysa	otsu muysa?
biz (if we)	otsuysak	otsu muysak?
siz (if you)	otsuysanız	otsu muysanız?
onlar (if they)	otsuysalar	otsu muysalar?

For negative forms, use the appropriate form of değil.

Derived terms

• otsu topluluk

Further reading

• “otsu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “otsu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3648a