different between austin vs oscar

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??s.k?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??s.k?/

Noun

oscar (plural oscars)

1. Astronotus ocellatus, a cichlid fish, native to South America, sometimes kept in aquariums.

Further reading

• Oscar (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AOCRs, ASROC, Carso, ROSCA, Rasco, Rocas, ocras, orcas, sacro-, sarco-

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /??s?k???/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /??s?k???/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish oscar (“outsider, new-comer, stranger; layperson, non-professional person; unskilled person, ignorant person; foe, enemy (especially an unknown one or stranger); (in late poetry) warrior, hero”).

Noun

oscar m (genitive singular oscair, nominative plural oscair)

1. (literary) warrior, hero

Etymology 2

From Old Irish oscor, oscar m (“leap, bound”).

Noun

oscar m (genitive singular oscair, nominative plural oscair)

1. leap, bound; agility
2. (swimming) stroke

Alternative forms

• ascar

Declension

Mutation

References

• "oscar" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 oscar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “oscor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language