Noun: os
Gender:
Nominative
| Singular | ōs |
| Plural | ēse; ōsa |
Genitive
| Singular | ōsa |
| Plural | ēsa; ōsa |
Dative
| Singular | ēse; ōsa |
| Plural | ōsum |
Sample Sentences
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ᚩ (os) byþ ordfruma ǣlcre sprǣċe, wīsdōmes wraþu and witena frōfur and eorla gehwām ēasnys and tōhiht. (ᚩ (mouth) is is the source of every language, Wisdom's support and consolation for the wise; Happiness and hope for every earl.) [9th c., The Old English rune poem:]
Nouns inflected like os
os,
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *ansu, from Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god, deity”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ems- (“engender, beget”). Cognate with Old Norse áss. See: Old Norse Nouns '
áss'.
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