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Where does “ós” come from?

ós (Catalan) comes from Latin ursus, from Proto-Italic *orsos.

ós (Catalan): bear

Definitions

  1. bear

Ancestry of “ós”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinursusa bear
2Proto-Italic*orsos—
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