Etymology

ossa

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Spanish Ossa ← Basque otsoa
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The story

  1. Basque · derived fromotsoa“wolf”
  2. Spanish · borrowed fromOssa
  3. English todayOssa

Surname borrowed from Spanish Ossa, itself from Basque otsoa (“wolf”).

Words from the same roots

Basqueotsoa all →

Ochoa

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.