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Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic ось (osĭ), from Proto-Slavic *osь (“axle”).
In the sense of "operating system", is an adaptation of the English acronym OS in the same sense.
Pronunciation
Noun
ось • (osʹ) f inan (genitive о́си, nominative plural о́си, genitive plural осе́й, relational adjective осево́й)
- axis
1967, “Song about Bears”, in Кавка́зская пле́нница [Kidnapping, Caucasian Style] (film):Где́-то на бе́лом све́те, / Та́м, где всегда́ моро́з, / Тру́тся спино́й медве́ди / О земну́ю о́сь. / Ми́мо плыву́т столе́тья, / Спя́т подо льдо́м моря́, / Тру́тся об о́сь медве́ди, / Ве́ртится земля́.- Gdé-to na bélom svéte, / Tám, gde vsegdá moróz, / Trútsja spinój medvédi / O zemnúju ósʹ. / Mímo plyvút stolétʹja, / Spját podo lʹdóm morjá, / Trútsja ob ósʹ medvédi, / Vértitsja zemljá.
- Somewhere in the world, / Where it is always cold, / Bears are rubbing their backs, / Against the earth's axis. / The centuries are swimming by, / The seas are sleeping under the ice, / Bears are rubbing against the axis, / The earth is spinning.
- axle
- (computer slang) operating system
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References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ось”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “ось”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 609
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “ось”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 752
Further reading
- ось in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
Ukrainian
Etymology
A merger of о (o) + се (se) which underwent subsequent reduction.[1] Cognate with Belarusian вось (vosʹ).
Pronunciation
Particle
ось • (osʹ)
- here (is), this (is), there (is), that (is)
- Synonym: от (ot)
References
- ^ Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “ось”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
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