otsu
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of otsu
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable)In Old Japanese, one of two sets of vowels of uncertain pronunciation which fell together in modern Japanese.
“Later—during the ninth century—the kō and otsu groups did come to be used interchangeably.”
“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.”
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adj
-
(not-comparable)In Old Japanese, one of two sets of vowels of uncertain pronunciation which fell together in modern Japanese.
“Later—during the ninth century—the kō and otsu groups did come to be used interchangeably.”
“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.”
name
- The capital city of Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 乙 (“second”).
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