okse

See also: økse

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse oxi, uxi, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô, from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn (“ox, bull”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔksə/, [ˈʌɡ̊sə]

Noun

okse c (singular definite oksen, plural indefinite okser)

1. ox (bovine animal used as a beast of burden or for food, especially a castrated male cattle)
2. beef (meat from a cow, bull or other bovines)

Inflection

Declension of okse

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	okse	oksen	okser	okserne
genitive	okses	oksens	oksers	oksernes

Verb

okse (imperative oks, infinitive at okse, present tense okser, past tense oksede, perfect tense har okset)

1. to slog

Synonyms

• knokle
• mase

See also

• okse on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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Estonian

Noun

okse (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. vomit

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• oksendama
• sapp

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse oxi, uxi, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô, from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn (“ox, bull”).

Noun

okse m (definite singular oksen, indefinite plural okser, definite plural oksene)

1. bull, ox

Derived terms

• oksekjøtt

Related terms

• ku

References

• “okse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• ukse

Etymology

From Old Norse oxi, uxi

Noun

okse m (definite singular oksen, indefinite plural oksar, definite plural oksane)

1. bull, ox

Derived terms

• oksekjøtt, oksekjøt

Related terms

• ku

References

• “okse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian oxa, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô, from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn (“ox, bull”).

Noun

okse c (plural oksen, diminutive okske)

1. ox

Further reading

• “okse”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011