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ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY
orra, ortha, orr', or, a charm, incantation, Ir. orrtha (órrtha, Con.), ortha, prayer, charm (in this last sense pronounced arrtha), E. Ir. ortha, acc. orthain, prayer (especially in verse); from Lat. ôrâtionem, Eng. oration.
orrais, squeamishness, nausea:
os, above, Ir. os, ós, uas, O. Ir. os, uas, W. uch, Br. a, us; see uasal for root.
os, an elk, deer, Ir. os (O'B.), E. Ir. os, oss, W. uch, pl. uchen, bos, Corn. ohan, boves, Br. oc'hen (do.), O. Br. ohen, boum: *okso-s (for G.), *uksen- (for Brittonic); Got. auhsa(n), Eng. ox, oxen; Skr. ukshán, bull.
'os, quoth; for ors, from or, ar, say; see arsa.
òs, mouth of a river, harbour bar; from Norse ôss, river mouth; Lat. ostium.
osadh, desisting, Ir. osadh, truce, E. Ir. ossad (do.): *ud-sta- "stand out"; root sta, stand.
osag, a blast, breeze: *ut-sâ, root ut, vet, ve, blow, as in onfhadh.
osan, a hose, stocking, Ir. assan, caliga, O. Ir. ossa, assa, soccus, W. hosan, Cor. hos; from Ag. S. hosa, g. hosan, now hose, hōsen, Norse hosa.
oscach, eminent, superior (Sh., O'B.), Ir. oscách; from os and cách.
oscarach, oscarra, bold, fierce, Ir. oscar, champion; from the heroic name Oscar, son of Oisian (Ir. Oisín, little deer or os, q.v.). Possibly Oscar stands for *ud-scaro-, "out-cutter", root scar of sgar, q.v. Zimmer derives it from Norse Ásgeirr, spear of the Anses or gods, and Oisian from the Saxon Óswine, friend of the Anses; which should give respectively Ásgar and Óisine, but the initial vowels are both o short in Oscar and Oisian. Doomsday Book has Osgar.
òsd, òsda, tigh òsda, an inn, Ir. tigh ósda; from M. Eng. ooste, hóst, hotel, house, hospitium, through Fr. from Lat. hospitium. Stokes takes it direct from O. Fr. oste.
osnadh, a sigh, so Ir., O. Ir. osnad, W. uchenaid, uch, Br. huanad. Zimmer has analysed this into os, up, and an (root of anail), breat: "up-breath"; cf. Lat. suspirium, from sup-spírium, "up-breath". But consider *ok-s, from uk of och. Cf. E. Ir. esnad, M. Ir. easnadh, song, moaning.
ospag, osmag, a gasp, sob, sigh, pang, Ir. ospóg, uspóg, osmóg; cf. osnadh. Also uspag, q.v.
ospairn, gasping quickly, sobbing, sighing; from os and spairn, q.v. Cf. uspairn.
othail, odhail, confusion, hubbub, also (Dial., where pronounced ow-il), rejoicing; spelt also foghail, fòghail; root gal, as in gal? For odhail, rejoicing, cf. M. Ir. odhach, ceolmar, also
