Etymograph

English

os

Os comes from Latin os ‘bone’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₃ésth₁‘bone’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEos‘bone’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1749same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₃ésth₁‘bone’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEos‘bone’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1749same form

Earliest quotation: 1749, Henry Fielding, London: A[ndrew] Millar: “I was once, I remember, called to a Patient,…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ ‘bone’

astragalus, 15 more

through Latin os ‘bone’

oral, regatta, 18 more

Another origin of os

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁óh₃s‘mouth’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ōs‘mouth’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEōs‘mouth’
  4. Englishtodayos

Another origin of os

  1. Swedishmodernås
  2. Englishtodayos

Today it means

noun Synonym of bone.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ / os

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