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Gender Feminine
Pronounced Pron. /ˈoː.sɛ/(Swedish)

Meaning & History

Norwegian form of Åsa, as well as a Swedish and Danish variant. It was used by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen in his play Peer Gynt (1867), where it belongs to the mother of the title character.