Osmo

Osmo

Finnish

Etymology

Taken from the Kalevala, a term for a young man, or possibly from dialectal osma (“wolverine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈosmo/, [ˈo̞s̠mo̞]
• Rhymes: -osmo
• Syllabification^(key): Os‧mo

Proper noun

Osmo

1. a male given name
   • 1849 Kalevala (Translation 1988 by Eino Friberg) 2:252-256:

     Eipä nouse Osmon ohra, / Ei kasva Kalevan kaura / Ilman maan alistamatta, / Ilman kasken kaatamatta, / Tuon tulella polttamatta.

     Osmo's barley willl not sprout / Nor the oats of Kaleva grow / Without clearing off the land, / Without cutting out a clearing, / Burning it all off with fire.

Declension

Inflection of Osmo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		Osmo	Osmot
genitive		Osmon	Osmojen
partitive		Osmoa	Osmoja
illative		Osmoon	Osmoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		Osmo	Osmot
accusative	nom.	Osmo	Osmot
	gen.	Osmon
genitive		Osmon	Osmojen
partitive		Osmoa	Osmoja
inessive		Osmossa	Osmoissa
elative		Osmosta	Osmoista
illative		Osmoon	Osmoihin
adessive		Osmolla	Osmoilla
ablative		Osmolta	Osmoilta
allative		Osmolle	Osmoille
essive		Osmona	Osmoina
translative		Osmoksi	Osmoiksi
instructive		—	Osmoin
abessive		Osmotta	Osmoitta
comitative		—	Osmoineen

Possessive forms of Osmo (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Osmoni	Osmomme
2nd person	Osmosi	Osmonne
3rd person	Osmonsa

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Galician

Etymology

Documented as Osamo in 1158. A Celtic place name, from Proto-Celtic *uxsamo- (“the uppermost”), from Proto-Celtic *owxs- (from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewps-, "high") + Proto-Celtic *-samo-, a superlative suffix.[1][2]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔsmo̝/

Proper noun

Osmo m

1. A parish of Cenlle, Ourense, Galicia.

Related terms

• Osma

References

1. Prósper, B. M. (2004) "Varia paleohispanica occidentalia", in Palaeohispanica, 4, page 189.
2. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 303.