ossu
Corsican edit
Etymology edit
From Latin ossum, popular variant of os, ossis, from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst.
Noun edit
ossu m (plural osse)
References edit
- “ossu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
ossu (feminine ossue, masculine plural ossus, feminine plural ossues)
Further reading edit
- “ossu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
ossu
Sardinian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin ossum, from os. Compare Catalan os, French os, Interlingua osso, Italian osso, Portuguese osso, Romanian os, Spanish hueso.
Noun edit
ossu m (plural ossos)
Sicilian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin ossum, popular variant of os, ossis, from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ossu m (plural ossa)
References edit
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 90: “le ossa; un osso” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “ossu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2855
- Macaluso Storaci, Sebastiano (1875) “ossu”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano e italiano-siciliano (in Italian), page 220