otsu

Borrowed from Japanese 乙 (“second”).

otsu (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) In Old Japanese, one of two sets of vowels of uncertain pronunciation which fell together in modern Japanese.
   • 1991, Christopher Seeley, A History of Writing in Japan:

     Later—during the ninth century—the kō and otsu groups did come to be used interchangeably.

   • 2001, John R. Bentley, A Descriptive Grammar of Early Old Japanese Prose:

     He rejects the claim of Matsumoto (1984) that the kô and otsu -o- vowels are in complementary distribution, and therefore these two vowels are allophones of a single vowel.

• otsu-rui
• kô/kō
• kô-otsu/kō-otsu

• Suto, SOTU, Tsou, tOSU, -tous, sout, OTUs, outs, oust

otsu

1. Rōmaji transcription of おつ

From ot (“grass”) +‎ -su (“-ish”).

• IPA^(key): /otˈsu/

otsu (botany)

1. herbaceous

   Synonym: otsul

   Antonym: odunsu

• “otsu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “otsu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3648a