Ouse
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old English Usa, probably of Romano-British Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *udso-, from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water”).[1]
Proper noun edit
Ouse
- Various rivers in England.
- 1786 [1834], William Cowper, The Task Book 1 in Poems, 254:
- Here Ouse, slow-winding through a level plain
Of spacious meads with cattle sprinkled o’er,
Conducts the eye along his sinuous course
Delighted.
- Here Ouse, slow-winding through a level plain
- River Ouse, Yorkshire: A river in North Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire.
- River Ouse, Sussex: A river in both West Sussex and East Sussex.
- River Great Ouse, Northamptonshire and East Anglia.
- River Little Ouse, a tributary of the River Great Ouse.
- 1786 [1834], William Cowper, The Task Book 1 in Poems, 254:
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ Smith, A. H. (1962). The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Vol. 7. Cambridge University Press. pp. 133–134.