{"id":6231,"date":"2011-11-11T11:35:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T11:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=6231"},"modified":"2011-11-11T11:35:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T11:35:31","slug":"os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=6231","title":{"rendered":"Os"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I discovered that the French word for bone, os<\/strong>, is pronounced \/\u0254s\/ in the singular, as I suspected, but \/o\/ in the plural [source<\/a>]. Os is also used in English as a zoological and medical term for bone and is pronounced \/\u0252s\/ (UK) or \/\u0251s\/ (US). Final consonants of French words aren’t usually pronounced, unless followed by a word beginning with a vowel, so you just have to memorise ones like os<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Os<\/strong> appears in such words and expressions as:
\n– ossature \/\u0254saty\u0280\/ = frame(work), skeletal\/bone structure
\n– osselet \/\u0254sl\u025b\/ = knucklebone, ossicle (small bone in the middle ear), osselet (small animal bone)
\n– osseux \/\u0254s\u00f8\/ = bone, osseus, bony
\n– ossification = ossification
\n– ossifier \/\u0254sifje\/ = to ossify (to harden, make into bone)
\n– ossuaire \/\u0254s\u0265\u025b\u0280\/ = ossuary (receptacle or place for the bones of the dead)<\/p>\n

– c’est un paquet \/ sac d’os = he’s a bag of bones, he’s skin and bone
\n– mouill\u00e9e \/ tremp\u00e9 jusqu’aux os = to be soaked to the skin, wet through
\n– donner un os \u00e0 ronger \u00e0 qn = to give sb something to keep them out of mischief (or) keep them quiet
\n– l’avoir dans l’os = to be done, to get egg all over one’s face (slang)
\n– il y a un os = there’s a snag \/ hitch
\n– tomber sur un os = to come across a snag<\/p>\n

Os<\/strong> comes from the Latin os<\/em> (bone), from the ancient Greek \u1f40\u03c3\u03c4\u03ad\u03bf\u03bd<\/em> (bone), which is also the root of the prefix osteo-<\/em>, and is not to be confused with \u014ds<\/em> \/\u0254\u02d0s\/, (mouth, face, entrance). <\/p>\n

In Welsh os<\/em> means ‘if’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I discovered that the French word for bone, os, is pronounced \/\u0254s\/ in the singular, as I suspected, but \/o\/ in the plural [source]. Os is also used in English as a zoological and medical term for bone and is pronounced \/\u0252s\/ (UK) or \/\u0251s\/ (US). Final consonants of French words aren’t usually pronounced, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,118,10,15,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-greek","category-language","category-latin","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}