otsu

See also: 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

• SOTU, Suto, Tsou, oust, outs, sout, tOSU

Japanese

Romanization

otsu

1. Rōmaji transcription of おつ