English
Ouse
Ouse comes from Old English Usa.
- Old Englishc. 450–1150Usa
- Englishearliest quotation 1786Ouse
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Old Englishc. 450–1150Usa
- Englishearliest quotation 1786Ouse
Earliest quotation: 1786, 1834, William Cowper: “Here Ouse, slow-winding through a level plain Of spacious…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *wed- ‘water’
water, wet, wash, und, abundance, vodka, abundant, hydro, redundant, surround, otter, hydrate, vitriol, hydride, aldehyde, vedra, inundate, undine, vitreous, 44 more
Today it means
name Various rivers in England.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old English Usa / Ouse