okse

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See also: økse

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse oxi, uxi, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô, from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn (“ox, bull”).

Pronunciation

Noun

okse c (singular definite oksen, plural indefinite okser)

  1. ox (bovine animal used as a beast of burden or for food, especially a castrated male cattle)
  2. beef (meat from a cow, bull or other bovines)

Inflection

Declension of okse
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative okse oksen okser okserne
genitive okses oksens oksers oksernes

Verb

okse (imperative oks, infinitive at okse, present tense okser, past tense oksede, perfect tense har okset)

  1. to slog
    Synonyms: knokle, mase

See also

Estonian

Etymology

From oksendama.

Noun

okse (genitive okse, partitive okset)

  1. vomit

Declension

Declension of okse (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative okse oksed
accusative nom.
gen. okse
genitive oksede
partitive okset oksesid
illative oksesse oksedesse
inessive okses oksedes
elative oksest oksedest
allative oksele oksedele
adessive oksel oksedel
ablative okselt oksedelt
translative okseks oksedeks
terminative okseni oksedeni
essive oksena oksedena
abessive okseta oksedeta
comitative oksega oksedega

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

okse

  1. Alternative form of oxe

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

From Old Norse oxi, uxi, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô, from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn (“ox, bull”).

Noun

okse m (definite singular oksen, indefinite plural okser, definite plural oksene)

  1. bull, ox

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse oxi, uxi.

Noun

okse m (definite singular oksen, indefinite plural oksar, definite plural oksane)

  1. bull, ox

Derived terms

References

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian oxa, from Proto-West Germanic *ohsō.

Noun

okse c (plural oksen, diminutive okske)

  1. ox

Further reading

  • “okse”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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