окша

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

1. axe

Further reading

• Bulyka, A. M., editor (2002), “окша”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 22 (оддыханье – ость), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 188