orko

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -orko
• Hyphenation: or‧ko

From English orc, ultimately from Latin Orcus. Doublet of ogro and orcino.

orko (accusative singular orkon, plural orkoj, accusative plural orkojn)

1. (fantasy, mythology) orc
   • 2007, J. R. R. Tolkien, translated by William Auld, La du turegoj, 2nd edition, translation of The Two Towers (in English):

     Sendube la orkoj prirabis ilin, sed timis reteni la tranĉilojn, ĉar ili sciis, kio ili estas: laboraĵoj de Okcidentio, envolvitaj per sorĉaĵoj por misfartigi Mordoron.

From Latin orca.

orko (accusative singular orkon, plural orkoj, accusative plural orkojn)

1. orca, killer whale

   Synonym: granda orcino

From Proto-Finnic *orko (compare Estonian org, Ingrian Orko, Livonian urg), possibly from Proto-Finno-Permic *orkɜ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈorko/,
• Rhymes: -orko
• Hyphenation^(key): or‧ko

orko (dialectal, archaic)

1. dell (valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep)

• alho

• koro

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔr.kɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔrkɔ
• Syllabification: or‧ko

orko f

1. vocative singular of orka

From Proto-Finnic *orko.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈorko/,
• Rhymes: -orko
• Hyphenation: or‧ko

orko

1. valley, vale, dale

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “orko”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn