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ok

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ok"
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English

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Pronunciation

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Hyphenation: o‧k

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Adjective

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ok

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

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Bimin

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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ok

  1. water

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Czech

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Noun

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ok

  1. genitive plural of oko

Elfdalian

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Etymology

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

Noun

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ok m

  1. hawk

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Declension of ok
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ok oken oker okär
accusative ok otjin oka oką
dative otje otjem okum okum(e)
genitive — otjemes — okumes

Esperanto

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Esperanto numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: ok
    Ordinal: oka
    Adverbial: oke
    Multiplier: okobla, okopa
    Fractional: okona, okono

Etymology

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From Latin octo.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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ok

  1. eight (8)

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  • okangulo (“octagon”)
  • oko (“a group or set of eight”)
  • okuna (“octave”)

Faroese

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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ok n (genitive singular oks, plural ok)

  1. yoke

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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

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Etymology

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

Noun

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ok

  1. (anatomy) belly, stomach

German Low German

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Etymology

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

Adverb

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ok

  1. also; and also

Hungarian

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Etymology

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From the obsolete dialectal okik (“to learn a lesson, to be edified”), itself from a Turkic language.[1] Compare Kyrgyz угуу (uguu, “to hear, to understand”).

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Noun

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ok (plural okok)

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

Declension

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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

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References

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  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.)

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

Icelandic

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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ok n (genitive singular oks, nominative plural ok)

  1. yoke
    Synonym: klafi

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Declension of ok (neuter)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ok okið ok okin
accusative ok okið ok okin
dative oki okinu okum okunum
genitive oks oksins oka okanna

Ido

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Ido numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: ok
    Ordinal: okesma
    Adverbial: okfoye
    Multiplier: okopla
    Fractional: okima

Etymology

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

Numeral

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ok

  1. eight (8)

Iwam

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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ok

  1. water

Synonyms

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Karaim

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *ok.

Noun

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ok

  1. arrow

References

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

Lacandon

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Noun

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ok

  1. foot

Mandobo Atas

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Noun

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ok

  1. water

Mandobo Bawah

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Noun

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ok

  1. water

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Marshallese

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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ok

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

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Mohawk

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Particle

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ok

  1. and...

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

Mokilese

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Verb

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ok

  1. to burn

Derived terms

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Ninggerum

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Noun

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ok

  1. water

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North Muyu

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Noun

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ok f

  1. water (in a well)

Noun

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ok m

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

Further reading

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  • 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

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse ók.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ok

  1. past tense of ake

Etymology 2

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Noun

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ok n (plural oket)

  1. (pre-1938) alternative form of åk

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Old Norse

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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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

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ok (runic script ᚢᚴ)

  1. and
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  • 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

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ok

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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ok n (genitive oks, plural ok)

  2. yoke
Declension
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Declension of ok (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ok okit ok okin
accusative ok okit ok okin
dative oki okinu okum okunum
genitive oks oksins oka okanna
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  • eykr m (“draft animal”)
  • eyki n (“vehicle, cart”)
  • oka (“to yoke”)
Descendants
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  • Icelandic: ok
  • Faroese: ok
  • Norwegian: åk
  • Old Swedish: uk, ok
    • Swedish: ok
  • Danish: åg
  • Elfdalian: uok
  • Gutnish: uk

Further reading

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  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “ok2”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Further reading

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  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “ok”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Old Saxon

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *auk.

Adverb

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ōk

  1. also, too

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Old Swedish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse ok.

Conjunction

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ok (runic script ᚢᚴ)

  1. and

Adverb

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ok

  1. also, too

Etymology 2

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From Old Norse ok.

Alternative forms

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Noun

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ok n

  2. yoke

Declension

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Declension of ok (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ok okit ok okin
accusative ok okit ok okin
dative oki, oke okinu, okeno okum, okom okumin, okomen
genitive oks oksins oka okanna

Polish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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ok n

  1. genitive plural of oko (some meanings)

Portuguese

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Interjection

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ok

  1. Alternative letter-case form of OK

Noun

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ok m (plural oks)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of OK

South Muyu

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Noun

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ok

  1. water

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Swedish

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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ok n

  1. a yoke
    1. a wooden bar used to connect two oxen by their shoulders
    2. a wooden bar placed over the shoulders of a person (used to carry for example buckets)
    3. (clothing) a part of a shirt draped over the shoulders
    4. (figuratively) a burden
      • 1999 November 17, 1973 års bibelkommission, “Matteusevangeliet 11:30”, in Bibel 2000‎[2], © Svenska Bibelsällskapet, accessed at Bible.com, archived from the original on 2025-05-04:
        Mitt ok är skonsamt och min börda är lätt.
        My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
      • 2004 June 13, Ingalill Mosander, “Orden har befriat mig”, in Aftonbladet‎[3], archived from the original on 2025-05-04:
        Det är som om ett ok har lyfts från mina axlar.
        It's as if a yoke has been lifted from my shoulders.
      • 2018, Johannes Magnus, translated by Kurt Johannesson, edited by Hans Helander, Goternas och svearnas historia‎[4], Michaelisgillet & Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, archived from the original on 2025-05-04, page 646:
        Därefter lades danskarna under oket av svenskarna för andra gången.
        Then the Danes were put under the yoke by the Swedes for the second time.

Declension

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Declension of ok
nominative genitive
singular indefinite ok oks
definite oket okets
plural indefinite ok oks
definite oken okens

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Tocharian B

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Numeral

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ok

  1. Alternative form of okt (“eight”)

Turkish

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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ok (definite accusative oku, plural oklar)

  1. arrow

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Vilamovian

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Conjunction

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ok

  1. only, to

Volapük

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Pronoun

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ok

  1. oneself

Declension

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Declension of ok
singular plural
nominative ok oks
genitive oka okas
dative oke okes
accusative oki okis

Wambon

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Noun

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ok

  1. water

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Wastek

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Noun

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ok

  1. heat

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Yessan-Mayo

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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ok m

  1. water

References

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  • 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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Tai *ʔoːkᴰ (“to exit”).[1]

Cognate with Thai ออก (ɔ̀ɔk), Northern Thai ᩋᩬᨠ, Lao ອອກ (ʼǭk), Lü ᦀᦸᧅᧈ (˙ʼoak¹), Shan ဢွၵ်ႇ (ʼàuk), Ahom 𑜒𑜨𑜀𑜫 (ʼok).

Perhaps related to Chinese 屙 (ē).

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Verb

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ok (Sawndip forms 𭃀[2] or ⿰出悪[2] or 𫫇[2] or 恶[2] or 𫥫[2] or 屋[2] or 跒[2] or ⿰出屋[2] or 喔[2] or 𡁮[2] or 沃[2], 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

References

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  1. ^ Pittayaporn, Pittayawat (2009) The Phonology of Proto-Tai‎[1], Cornell University PhD dissertation, page 352
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 古壮字字典 [Dictionary of Old Zhuang Characters] (in Chinese), Guangxi: Ethnic Publishing House (广西民族出版社), 2012, →ISBN
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