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Old Ruthenian
Etymology
First attested in the early 17th century. Probably borrowed from Middle Polish, from Old Polish oksza, from Proto-Slavic *okъša, from Proto-Germanic *akwisī, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷsih₂, from *h₂eḱ-. Compare Middle Russian окшева (okševa).
Noun
окша • (okša) f
- axe
Further reading
- Bulyka, A. M., editor (2002), “окша”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы (in Belarusian), numbers 22 (оддыханье – ость), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 188