oss

Clipping of English Ossetian.

oss

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Ossetian.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Ossetian terms

Unclear. Middle English ōssen had a rather different meaning, "to reveal, to prophesy", but the OED suggests it could nonetheless be the same verb. The origin of the Middle English verb is itself obscure, but it may be a variant of halsen, from Old English hālsian, although this too had a rather different meaning, "to beseech, entreat; to exorcise; to imprecate".

• IPA^(key): (UK) /ɒs/^[1][2]
  • (in Northern England also) /ɒːs/,^[2] (and in some UK dialects also) /ɔːs/^[1]

oss

1. (dialectal) To set about, or intend be inclined to set about (doing something).
   • 1840, Ann Coward Wheeler, The Westmoreland Dialect in Four Familiar Dialogues: In which an Attempt is Made to Illustrate the Provincial Idiom, page 64:

     JENNET. [...] Soa yee see Ise ossin towart hausekeepin. SARAH. Whya nowt but weel. Wees nit hev the weddin an kirsenin at yaa time, that's a cumfort. JENNET. Hed Sammy ivver offerd onny thing that's mismannerd to me, awr courtship wod sean hae […]

   • 1872, Notes and Queries, page 492:

     "Dun you know if the glasses is ossing to sattle?"

   • 1876, Richard Morris, On the Survival of Early English Words in Our Present Dialects, page 60:

     Eh, Mary, w'ereta for? / O'm ossin' t' goo t' Eccles

   • 1885, Thomas Hallam, Four Dialect Words: Clem, Lake, Nesh, and Oss, Their Modern Dialectal Rang, Meanings, Pronunciation, Etymology, and Early Or Literary Use, page 58:

     Aw'm ossin t' goo t' Buxton

   • 1903, Bye-gones: Relating to Wales and the Border Counties, page 136:

     I told you to do so and so, but you dunna oss to do it.

   • 2024 August 1, Deborah Mutch, British Socialist Fiction, 1884-1914, Volume 3, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

     ... but he didn't oss for t' goo any ner.

2. (dialectal) To offer (to do something).
   • 1870, Axon, Black Kt., page 56, quoted in the EDD:

     an' nobody ossin' to do it

   • 1875, Bickerdike, Beacon Alm., page 41, quoted in the EDD:

     They owe fer cannels, an' meyle, an' nivver oss to pay.

   • 1886, Robert Holland, A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester, page 459:

     "... he ne'er osses pay me, an aw hearn foaks sen he isna gettingk on gradely reet, so aw'st just caw an ax for th' brass afore he goes to th' wa', an then aw'st caw an get thee a yew pair o' pattens as aw coom hwom!"

   • 1897, Hamilton Kingsford, Vigornian Monologues: A Series of Papers in Illustration of the Dialect of Worcestershire, page 11:

     Tom Stokes 'e ossed to goo an' ketch 'er, an' wen 'er runned by 'im 'e thraowed a stone vicious, an' 'it 'er ov the heye, an' 'er worn't good fur nothin' ahterwards, an' I sowld 'er fur wot 'er 'ud fetch […]

• Anatoly Liberman, Ossing is bossing: "Oss, current over a large territory of England, [...]"

oss (plural osses)

1. Alternative spelling of 'oss.

• S.O.S., SOS, SOs, SSO, so's, sos

From Old Norse oss.

oss

1. (personal, archaic, formal) accusative of vér

   Þetta kemur oss ekki við.

   This does not affect us.

2. (personal, archaic, formal) dative of vér

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

• (Milanese) IPA^(key): /ˈɔs/

oss

1. bone

• 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
• Arrighi, Cletto (1896), Dizionario milanese-italiano, col repertorio italiano-milanese: […] ‎^[1] (in Italian), Milan: Hoepli, page 489

• IPA^(key): /ɔsː/

oss

1. us
2. (reflexive; also oss selv) ourselves

• okke, osse
• åss, øss, os

From Old Norse accusative and dative oss of vér, from Proto-Germanic accusative *uns, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé.

• IPA^(key): /ɔsː/

oss

1. (personal) us; me and at least one other person; objective case of me and vi
2. (reflexive pronoun) ourselves
   • 1998, Jon Fosse, Natta syng sine songar, Oslo: Samlaget, page 203:

     vi tok oss god tid

     we took our time

     (literally, “we took ourselves good time”)

3. (dialectal, Gudbrandsdal, Romsdal, Trøndelag, personal) we

   Når va det oss skoillj fårrå te skævven?

   When we were supposed to go to the forest?

   • 1770, Edvard Storm, “Guten aa Jenta paa Fjøshjellen”, in Den fyrste morgonblånen, Oslo: Novus, published 1990, page 233:

     Dæmæ venda os aat Bygden

     thus we turn towards the village

• “oss”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

oss

1. accusative of vér
2. dative of vér

• Icelandic: oss
• Faroese: os, oss
• Norn:

  Orkney: vus

  Shetland: wus

• Norwegian: oss
• Dalian: wóss, vôss, ôss, våss, uôss, wåss, wôss, huoss
  • Elfdalian: uoss
• Old Swedish: oss
  • Swedish: oss
• Scanian: váss
• Old Danish: os, us
  • Danish: os
• Gutnish: våss

• ies (Sursilvan)
• òss (Surmiran)
• öss (Puter, Vallader)

From Latin ossum, popular variant of os.

oss m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) bone

oss m (plural ossa)

1. (Sutsilvan) bone

• oß (obsolete typography)

From Old Norse oss, from Proto-Germanic *uns, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé.

• IPA^(key): /ɔs/

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oss

1. us (objective case)

   Såg du oss där?

   Did you see us there?

   • 1981, X Models, “Två av oss [Two of us]”‎^[2]:

     Det finns bara en av mig och det är jag. Det finns bara en av dig och det är du. Det finns bara två av oss, och det är vi.

     There is only one of me and that is I. There is only one of you [object] and that is you [subject]. There are only two of us, and that is us [we – subject]. [Swedish has some of the same subject/object fuzziness as English, but a standalone "Det är <pronoun>" idiomatically (through intuition rather than being taught) uses the subject form]

2. reflexive case of vi; compare ourselves

   Vi skulle vilja lära oss jonglera

   We would like to learn how to juggle

   (literally, “We would like to learn/teach ourselves to juggle”)

   • 1974, Lasse Tennander, “Ska vi gå hem till dig [Shall We Go to Your Place ["home to you" – idiomatic]]”, in Allting som ni gör kan jag göra bättre [Anything You Do, I Can Do Better [a cover album]]‎^[3], performed by Magnus Uggla:

     Ska vi gå hem till dig eller hem till mig, eller var och en hem till sitt? Ska vi göra som dom andra och ägna oss åt varandra, eller ska var och en sköta sitt?

     Shall we go to your place ["home to you" – idiomatic] or to my place [home to me], or each one ["each and one" – idiomatic] home to theirs [nominalized – neuter gender is used when there is no concrete referent, like in impersonal constructions and here, as a rule of thumb]? Shall we do like the others and spend time on each other [engage ourselves in each other as an activity – doesn't have the connotations of devote], or shall each one mind [take care of] theirs [nominalized]?

Note that some verbs have special senses when used reflexively. For example, do not confuse vi lär oss att... ("we learn to...") [reflexive] with de lär oss att... ("they teach us to...") and vi lär oss själva att... ("we teach ourselves to..."). Here, lär means teach(es) if it is not reflexive, but learn(s) if it is reflexive. Hence the need for the separate pronoun "oss själva" to be used when object and subject agree, but the verb nevertheless should not be used in the reflexive case.

• oss själva

• vi in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vi in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vi in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• SOS, sos

From Proto-Finnic *oksa.

oss (genitive ossa, partitive ossa)

1. branch

This noun needs an inflection-table template.