From Middle Low German pocke (“boil, abscess”), from Proto-Germanic *pukkaz, *pukkǭ (“pock; swelling”), cognate with English pock, pox, German Pocke. Maybe kopper (“smallpox”) is a euphemistic refashioning of this word.
pokker c pl
pokker c (singular definite pokkeren, not used in plural form)
| common gender |
Singular | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | pokker | pokkeren |
| genitive | pokkers | pokkerens |
Borrowed from German Poker, itself borrowed from English poker.
pokker (genitive pokkeri, partitive pokkerit)
| Declension of pokker (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | pokker | pokkerid | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | pokkeri | ||
| genitive | pokkerite | ||
| partitive | pokkerit | pokkereid | |
| illative | pokkerisse | pokkeritesse pokkereisse | |
| inessive | pokkeris | pokkerites pokkereis | |
| elative | pokkerist | pokkeritest pokkereist | |
| allative | pokkerile | pokkeritele pokkereile | |
| adessive | pokkeril | pokkeritel pokkereil | |
| ablative | pokkerilt | pokkeritelt pokkereilt | |
| translative | pokkeriks | pokkeriteks pokkereiks | |
| terminative | pokkerini | pokkeriteni | |
| essive | pokkerina | pokkeritena | |
| abessive | pokkerita | pokkeriteta | |
| comitative | pokkeriga | pokkeritega | |
pokker