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]

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ussus, from Latin ursus. Compare Galician and Spanish oso, Portuguese urso.

• 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/
• Rhymes: -osu
• Syllabification: o‧su

osu m (plural osus)

1. (anatomy) bone

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[2], 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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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)

Conjugation of osu (action verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		toosu	moosu	aosu
2nd person		noosu	foosu
3rd person	inanimate	iosu	doosu
	animate
imperative		noosu, osu	foosu, osu

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[3], Pacific linguistics