The story
- Old English · derived fromġēose“gush”
- English todayOuseburn
Per Breeze (1998), from the Proto-Brythonic equivalent of Welsh iesin (“sparking, shining”) (cf. Taliesin). Otherwise, derived from the same root (cf. Welsh ias) with a diminutive suffix, or else from Old English ġēose (“gush”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.