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English

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Adjective

ok

  1. (informal) Alternative letter-case form of OK

Anagrams

Bimin

Pronunciation

Noun

ok

  1. water

Further reading

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

ok

  1. genitive plural of oko

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse haukr, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz, Cognate with Swedish hök.

Noun

ok m

  1. hawk

Declension

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Esperanto

Esperanto numbers (edit)
80
 ←  7 8 9  → 
    Cardinal: ok
    Ordinal: oka
    Adverbial: oke
    Multiplier: okobla, okopa
    Fractional: okona, okono

Etymology

From Latin octo.

Pronunciation

Numeral

ok

  1. eight (8)

Derived terms

  • okangulo (octagon)
  • oko (a group or set of eight)

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse ok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Pronunciation

Noun

ok n (genitive singular oks, plural ok)

  1. yoke

Declension

Declension of ok
n3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ok okið ok okini
accusative ok okið ok okini
dative oki okinum okum okunum
genitive oks oksins oka okanna

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ok

  1. (anatomy) belly, stomach

German Low German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Low German and Old Saxon ōk, like German auch.

Adverb

ok

  1. also; and also

Hungarian

Etymology

From the obsolete dialectal okik (to learn a lesson, to be edified), itself from a Turkic language. Compare Kyrgyz угуу (uguu, to hear, to understand).

Pronunciation

Noun

ok (plural okok)

  1. cause
    Holonyms: okság, ok-okozati viszony
    Coordinate terms: következmény, okozat
  2. reason, motive
    Synonym: indok

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative ok okok
accusative okot okokat
dative oknak okoknak
instrumental okkal okokkal
causal-final okért okokért
translative okká okokká
terminative okig okokig
essive-formal okként okokként
essive-modal
inessive okban okokban
superessive okon okokon
adessive oknál okoknál
illative okba okokba
sublative okra okokra
allative okhoz okokhoz
elative okból okokból
delative okról okokról
ablative októl okoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
oké okoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
okéi okokéi
Possessive forms of ok
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. okom okaim
2nd person sing. okod okaid
3rd person sing. oka okai
1st person plural okunk okaink
2nd person plural okotok okaitok
3rd person plural okuk okaik

Derived terms

Compound words with this term at the beginning
Compound words with this term at the end

Related terms

References

  1. ^ ok in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • ok in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse ok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Pronunciation

Noun

ok n (genitive singular oks, nominative plural ok)

  1. yoke

Declension

Synonyms

Ido

Ido numbers (edit)
80
 ←  7 8 9  → 
    Cardinal: ok
    Ordinal: okesma
    Adverbial: okfoye
    Multiplier: okopla
    Fractional: okima

Etymology

From Esperanto ok, from Latin octo, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Numeral

ok

  1. eight (8)

Iwam

Pronunciation

Noun

ok

  1. water

Synonyms

Further reading

Karaim

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ok.

Noun

ok

  1. arrow

References

  • N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “ok”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

Lacandon

Noun

ok

  1. foot

Mandobo Atas

Noun

ok

  1. water

Mandobo Bawah

Pronunciation

Noun

ok

  1. water

References

Marshallese

Pronunciation

Noun

ok

  1. fish net.
  2. netting.
  3. screen; sieve.

References

Mohawk

Particle

ok

  1. and...

References

  • Gunther Michelson (1973) A thousand words of Mohawk, University of Ottawa Press, page 83

Ninggerum

Noun

ok

  1. water

Further reading

North Muyu

Noun

ok f

  1. water (in a well)

Noun

ok m

  1. water (drawn, e.g. out of well)
  2. sap (in fruits)

Further reading

  • Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)
  • Jan Honoré Maria Cornelis Boelaars, The Linguistic Position of South-Western New Guinea (III), chapter XII, Kati language

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ók.

Pronunciation

Verb

ok

  1. past tense of ake

Etymology 2

Noun

ok n (plural oket)

  1. (pre-1938) alternative form of åk

Anagrams

Old Norse

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From earlier auk, from Proto-Germanic *auk (also). Cognate with Old English ēac, Old Frisian āk, Old Saxon ōk, Old High German ouh, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌺 (auk).

Conjunction

ok (runic script ᚢᚴ)

  1. and
Descendants
  • Icelandic: auk, og
  • Faroese: og
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: og, au, aug; (dialectal) ok, auk, ug
    • Norwegian Bokmål: au
  • Jamtish: og
  • Elfdalian: og
  • Old Swedish: ok, oc, och, ogh
  • Old Danish: oc
    • Danish: og
      • Norwegian Bokmål: og
  • Middle English: oc, ok

Adverb

ok

  1. also, too
Descendants
  • Icelandic: og
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: òg
  • Norwegian Bokmål: òg
  • Swedish: ock

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Noun

ok n (genitive oks, plural ok)

  1. yoke
Declension
Related terms
  • eykr m (draft animal)
  • eyki n (vehicle, cart)
  • oka (to yoke)
Descendants
  • Icelandic: ok
  • Faroese: ok
  • Norwegian: åk
  • Old Swedish: uk, ok
    • Swedish: ok
  • Danish: åg
  • Elfdalian: uok
  • Gutnish: uk

References

  • ok2”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

References

  • ok”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *auk.

Adverb

ōk

  1. also, too

Descendants

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ok.

Conjunction

ok (runic script ᚢᚴ)

  1. and

Adverb

ok

  1. also, too

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ok.

Alternative forms

Noun

ok n

  1. yoke

Declension

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

ok n

  1. genitive plural of oko (some meanings)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

Interjection

ok

  1. Alternative letter-case form of OK

Noun

ok m (plural oks)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of OK

South Muyu

Noun

ok

  1. water

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm. Doublet of zygot.

Noun

ok n

  1. yoke; a wooden bar used to connect two oxen by their shoulders
  2. yoke; a wooden bar to be placed over one's shoulders, and used to carry buckets
  3. heavy burden
  4. yoke; the part of a shirt draped over the wearer's shoulders
Declension
Declension of ok 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ok oket ok oken
Genitive oks okets oks okens
Related terms

Etymology 2

Conjunction

ok

  1. Alternative form of och

Adverb

ok

  1. Alternative form of ock

See also

References

Anagrams

Tocharian B

Numeral

ok

  1. Alternative form of okt (eight)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اوق, from Proto-Turkic *ok (arrow). Compare Old Turkic 𐰸 (ok, arrow).

Pronunciation

Noun

ok (definite accusative oku, plural oklar)

  1. arrow

Derived terms

References

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Conjunction

ok

  1. only, to

Volapük

Pronoun

ok

  1. oneself

Declension

Wambon

Noun

ok

  1. water

Further reading

Wastek

Noun

ok

  1. heat

References

Yessan-Mayo

Alternative forms

Noun

ok m

  1. water

References

  • Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method (2004, →ISBN
  • transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66 (as okw)

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʔoːkᴰ (to exit). Cognate with Thai ออก (ɔ̀ɔk), Northern Thai ᩋᩬᨠ, Lao ອອກ (ʼǭk), ᦀᦸᧅᧈ (˙ʼoak¹), Shan ဢွၵ်ႇ (ʼàuk), Ahom 𑜒𑜨𑜀𑜫 (ʼok). Perhaps related to Chinese (ē).

Pronunciation

Verb

ok (Sawndip forms 𭃀 or ⿰出悪 or 𫫇 or or 𫫇 or 𫥫 or or or ⿰出屋 or or 𡁮 or , 1957–1982 spelling ok)

  1. to exit
    ok ranz
    to leave the house
  2. to provide; to give
  3. to excrete
  4. to produce; to make
  5. to sprout; to put forth; to bud
  6. to occur; to happen; to come up
  7. to exceed; to go over
  8. to present; to put forth; to raise; to pose
  9. to issue; to release
  10. to publish