ossu

Corsican

Etymology

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

Noun

ossu m (plural osse)

1. (anatomy) bone

References

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

French

Etymology

From os +‎ -u.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.sy/

Adjective

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

1. boney; big-boned

Further reading

• “ossu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Japanese

Romanization

ossu

1. Rōmaji transcription of おっす

Sardinian

Etymology

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

Noun

ossu m (plural ossos)

1. bone

Sicilian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ossu m (plural ossa)

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

References

• 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