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Webster 1913 Edition


Jossa

Jos′sa

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int
erj.
A command to a horse, probably meaning “stand still.”
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Definition 2024


jossa

jossa

English

Interjection

jossa

  1. (obsolete) A command to a horse, probably meaning "stand still".
    • 1387, Chaucer, “v. 4101”, in The Reeve's Tale:
      With "Keep! Keep! Stand! Stand! Jossa, warderere, Ga whistle thou, and I shal kepe hym heere!"


Finnish

Pronoun

jossa

  1. (relative) Inessive singular form of joka.
    • Maa, jossa asuin.
      • The country where I lived.