osu

• (Akuapem) Tone: LH[1]

osu

1. rain[2][1]

   Synonym: (Fante) nyankom

2. (Akuapem) weeping, wail[1]
3. rain cloud[2]

   osu amuna ― it is cloudy[2][1]

From Vulgar Latin *ussus, from Latin ursus. Compare Spanish and Galician oso, Old Portuguese usso.

• IPA^(key): /ˈosu/, [ˈo.su]

osu m (plural osos)

1. bear

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈosu/

osu m (plural osus)

1. (anatomy) bone

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

osu

1. inflection of osua:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• suo

osu n

1. definite singular of os The bone

osu

1. Rōmaji transcription of おす

From Portuguese osso.

osu

1. bone

osu f

1. inflection of osa:
   1. accusative/instrumental singular
   2. genitive plural

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osu m (plural osos)

1. bear

• AEDLL

From Proto-Yoruboid *ó-cù, cognate with Igala ochu, Yoruba ochù, Yoruba oṣù, Yoruba osù

• IPA^(key): /ō.sù/

osù

1. moon

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.su/

osu n

1. Eye dialect spelling of osul.
2. Archaic spelling of osul.
3. Nonstandard spelling of osul.

osu (Cyrillic spelling осу)

1. accusative singular of osa

osu

1. accusative singular of osa

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.s̪u/

osu

1. (intransitive) to get up, to rise (from sitting)
2. (intransitive) to get up, to wake up (from sleep)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics