Otsu

Origin

From Japanese ä¹™ otsu "second".

Full definition of otsu

Adjective

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 JapanLater—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 ProseHe 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.

Anagrams

• oust
• outs
• Tsou