okkons
Norwegian Nynorsk
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse okkarn with a genitive -s added. The former was the accusative masculine singular of okkarr, from Proto-Germanic *unkeraz, possessive determiners of Old Norse vit and Proto-Germanic *wet respectively, the first-person dual pronoun.
Determiner
editokkons
- (dialectal) our
- Synonym: vår
- 1878, John Lie, Hugaljo, Kristiania: Samlaget, page 23:
- i okkons vene Heim
- in our beautiful home
References
edit- Ivar Aasen (1850) “vår”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog[1] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000