Steinunn’s Ósa

Steinunn’s Ósa – Welpe 4 – female

Icelandic spelling of Osa ^[1]
1) Old Danish variant form of Åsa (see Ása) ^[1]
2) Short form of names beginning with Os- (see AS) ^[2]

Germanic name element sometimes interpreted as meaning the god Þórr in names ^[1]
The origin could lie in Germanic *ans- = ‚beam, post‘ (devotion to wooden gods) or Old Indian ásura-, ásu = ‚vitality‘ ^[2]
See also AST

Ancient Germanic                  

*ansu- = ‚áss‘, ‚god‘ ^[3]
*ansuz = ‚heathen god‘ ^[4] [5]
*ansuz = ‚áss‘, ‚god‘ ^[6]

Proto-Norse

*ansuR = ‚heathen god‘ ^{[1] [7] [8] [3]}
*ansuz = ‚heathen god‘ ^[9]

Old Norse

ás = ‚áss‘, ‚god‘ ^[6]
áss = ‚(heathen) god‘ ^{[7] [3] [2] [1] [10] [9]}
óss = ‚(heathen) god‘ ^[3] [1]
ǫss = ‚heathen god‘ ^[7]

Icelandic

ás = ‚heathen god‘ ^[13]

 Worldfengur
1) E-ð sem logar ekki og leggur reyk frá. 2) Kvenmannsnafn með óljósa merkingu.
1) Rauchqualm. 2) Frauenname mit unklarer Bedeutung

Anzahl in WorldFengur registrierter Pferde mit dem Namen Ósa: 5

Dark red, with white collar, white blaze,
white breast, white belly, white front legs, white hind paws, white tail tip
Hind paws with double dewclaws
Birthweight 288 gram