An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Öse

by Friedrich Kluge

Öse, feminine, ‘ear, hook,’ from late Middle High German and early Modern High German (Middle German and Middle Low German) œse, feminine, ‘ear, hook, handle’; the usual assumption that the word is borrowed from Latin ansa, ‘handle,’ is not to be preferred to the opinion that Öse and Öhr are identical, and that the s from which the r of Ohr and Öhr is derived is preserved in Öse; see Öhr.