өк
Kazakh
[edit]Interjection
[edit]өк • (ök)
- an exclamation when goading the cattle
Ket
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *ok ~ *oks? (“sterlet”, kind of fish), a word that is found only in Ket-Yug branch of languages and the poorly documented and distantly related Pumpokol.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]өк (ōk) (plural оксин)
- sterlet (kind of fish)
References
[edit]- ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 512
Further reading
[edit]- Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 50
- Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 271