hueso
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish huesso, from Latin ossum, popular variant of os, ossis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst. Compare Catalan os, French os, Interlingua osso, Italian osso, Portuguese osso, Romanian os, Sardinian ossu.
Political sense comes from comparing a dog looking for and defending a bone and a politician searching a position.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈweso/
- (dialectal) IPA(key): /ˈɡweso/, IPA(key): /ˈbweso/
Noun
hueso m (plural huesos)
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