kåk
Swedish
Etymology
Probably from an older sense, meaning a pole where different punishments were carried out on; probably denoting the structure or scaffolding the pole were raised on. If so, then inherited from Old Swedish kaker, from Middle Low German kāk.
Noun
kåk c
- (slang) house, building (often of bad quality or damaged)
- (slang) prison
- (poker) full house, a combination of a pair and three-of-a-kind
Declension
Declension of kåk | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | kåk | kåken | kåkar | kåkarna |
Genitive | kåks | kåkens | kåkars | kåkarnas |
Welsh Romani
Noun
kåk m
Derived terms
References
- “kåk” in Welsh Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
Categories:
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Swedish
- Swedish terms derived from Old Swedish
- Swedish terms derived from Middle Low German
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish palindromes
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish slang
- sv:Poker
- Welsh Romani lemmas
- Welsh Romani nouns
- Welsh Romani palindromes
- Welsh Romani masculine nouns
- rmw:Male family members