ossu

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Corsican

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Etymology

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From Latin ossum, popular variant of os, ossis, from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (bone), *h₂óst.

Noun

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ossu m (plural osse)

  1. (anatomy) bone

References

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  • ossu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

French

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Etymology

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From os +‎ -u.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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ossu (feminine ossue, masculine plural ossus, feminine plural ossues)

  1. boney; big-boned

Further reading

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Japanese

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Romanization

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ossu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of おっす

Sardinian

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Etymology

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From Latin ossum, from os. Compare Catalan os, French os, Interlingua osso, Italian osso, Portuguese osso, Romanian os, Spanish hueso.

Noun

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ossu m (plural ossos)

  1. bone

Sicilian

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Etymology

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From Latin ossum, popular variant of os, ossis, from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (bone), *h₂óst.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɔs.su/
  • Hyphenation: os‧su

Noun

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ossu m (plural ossa)

  1. (anatomy) bone
  2. (botany) stone, pit (in fruits)

References

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  • 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