eker
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]eker (plural ekers)
- One who ekes.
- 1957, Petroleum Times, volume 61, page 43:
- What with the increased cost and the continued element of unreliability that these facts mean, I don't see in hydro-electricity more than an eker-out of coal and oil, not a supplanter.
Anagrams
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Swedish eker, which is the same word as the tree ek (“oak”).
Noun
[edit]eker c
- a spoke (part of a wheel, a beam from hub to rim)
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | eker | ekers |
| definite | ekern | ekerns | |
| plural | indefinite | ekrar | ekrars |
| definite | ekrarna | ekrarnas |
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “eker”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “eker”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)