ok

See also: Ok, OK, -ok, ók, òk, ők, and Appendix:Variations of "ok"

English

Adjective

ok

1. (informal) Alternative letter-case form of OK

Anagrams

• KO, ko

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Bimin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ok/

Noun

ok

1. water

Further reading

• Thomas Weber, Henry Whitney, Bimin Phonology Essentials (1999)

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Czech

Pronunciation

• audio:

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Noun

ok

1. genitive plural of oko

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Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse haukr, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz, Cognate with Swedish hök.

Noun

ok m

1. hawk

Declension

Declension of ok

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ok	oken	oker	okär
accusative	ok	otjin	oka	oką
dative	otje	otjem	okum	okum(e)
genitive	—	otjemes	—	okumes

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Esperanto

Esperanto cardinal numbers

<  7	8	9  >
Cardinal : ok     Ordinal : oka     Adverbial : oke     Multiplier : okobla     Fractional : okona

Etymology

From Latin octo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ok/

• Audio:

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Numeral

ok

1. eight (8)

Derived terms

• okangulo (“octagon”)
• oko (“a group or set of eight”)

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Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse ok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoːʰk/
• Rhymes: -oːʰk

Noun

ok n (genitive singular oks, plural ok)

1. yoke

Declension

Declension of ok
n3	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ok	okið	ok	okini
accusative	ok	okið	ok	okini
dative	oki	okinum	okum	okunum
genitive	oks	oksins	oka	okanna

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German Low German

Alternative forms

• auk, ock, ohk, ook

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *auk, like German auch.

Adverb

ok

1. also; and also

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Hungarian

Etymology

From the obsolete dialectal okik (“to learn a lesson, to be edified”), itself from a Turkic language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈok]

• Audio:

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Noun

ok (plural okok)

1. cause
2. reason

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	ok	okok
accusative	okot	okokat
dative	oknak	okoknak
instrumental	okkal	okokkal
causal-final	okért	okokért
translative	okká	okokká
terminative	okig	okokig
essive-formal	okként	okokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	okban	okokban
superessive	okon	okokon
adessive	oknál	okoknál
illative	okba	okokba
sublative	okra	okokra
allative	okhoz	okokhoz
elative	okból	okokból
delative	okról	okokról
ablative	októl	okoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	oké	okoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	okéi	okokéi

Possessive forms of ok
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	okom	okaim
2nd person sing.	okod	okaid
3rd person sing.	oka	okai
1st person plural	okunk	okaink
2nd person plural	okotok	okaitok
3rd person plural	okuk	okaik

Derived terms

• okmány
• okol
• okos
• okoz
• okság
• oktalan
• okvetlen

(Compound words):

• halálok
• okirat
• oklevél

Related terms

• okít
• oktat
• okul

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse ok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔːk/
• Rhymes: -ɔːk

Noun

ok n (genitive singular oks, nominative plural ok)

1. yoke

Declension

declension of ok

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ok	okið	ok	okin
accusative	ok	okið	ok	okin
dative	oki	okinu	okum	okunum
genitive	oks	oksins	oka	okanna

Synonyms

• klafi

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Ido

Ido cardinal numbers

<  7	8	9  >
Cardinal : ok     Ordinal : okesma     Adverbial : okfoye     Multiplier : okopla     Fractional : okima
Ido Wikipedia article on 8_(nombro)

Etymology

From Esperanto ok, from Latin octo, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Numeral

ok

1. eight (8)

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Iwam

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ok/

Noun

ok

1. water

Synonyms

• op

Further reading

• Robert Conrad, May River Iwam Organised Phonology Data (1992)

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Marshallese

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [wokʷ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /wekʷ/
• Bender phonemes: {wȩkʷ}

Noun

ok

1. fish net.
2. netting.
3. screen; sieve.

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

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Ninggerum

Noun

ok

1. water

Further reading

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)

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North Muyu

Noun

ok f

1. water (in a well)

Noun

ok m

1. water (drawn, e.g. out of well)
2. sap (in fruits)

Further reading

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)
• Jan Honoré Maria Cornelis Boelaars, The Linguistic Position of South-Western New Guinea (III), chapter XII, Kati language

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Old Norse

Alternative forms

• auk (ᛅᚢᚴ (auk))

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *auk (“also”). Cognate with Old English ēac, Old Frisian āk, Old Saxon ōk, Old High German ouh, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌺 (auk).

Conjunction

ok (runic script ᚢᚴ)

1. and
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:ok.

Descendants

• Danish: og
• Elfdalian: og
• Faroese: og
• Icelandic: og

• Norwegian: og
• Swedish: och

Adverb

ok

1. also, too

Descendants

• Norwegian: òg

• Swedish: ock

Etymology 2

(deprecated template usage) From Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Noun

ok n (genitive oks, plural ok)

1. yoke

Declension

  Declension of ok (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ok	okit	ok	okin
accusative	ok	okit	ok	okin
dative	oki	okinu	okum	okunum
genitive	oks	oksins	oka	okanna

Descendants

• Danish: åg
• Faroese: ok
• Icelandic: ok

• Norwegian: åk
• Swedish: ok

References

• “ok2”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

References

• “ok”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *auk.

Adverb

ōk

1. also, too

Descendants

• Middle Low German: ōk
  • Dutch Low Saxon: ok, ook
  • German Low German: ok, auk, ock, ohk, ook
  • Plautdietsch: uk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔk/

Noun

ok

1. genitive plural of oko

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Portuguese

Interjection

ok

1. Alternative letter-case form of OK

Noun

ok m (plural s)

1. Alternative letter-case form of OK

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South Muyu

Noun

ok

1. water

Further reading

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)

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Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Noun

ok n

1. yoke; a wooden bar used to connect two oxen by their shoulders
2. yoke; a wooden bar to be placed over one's shoulders, and used to carry buckets
3. heavy burden
4. yoke; the part of a shirt draped over the wearer's shoulders

Declension

Declension of ok
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	ok	oket	ok	oken
Genitive	oks	okets	oks	okens

Related terms

• bromsok

Conjunction

ok

1. Alternative form of och

Adverb

ok

1. Alternative form of ock

See also

• oka
• OK

Anagrams

• ko

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Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic 𐰸 (ok, “arrow”), from Proto-Turkic.

Noun

ok (definite accusative oku, plural oklar)

1. arrow

Derived terms

• okçu
• okçuluk
• okluk

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Vilamovian

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Conjunction

ok

1. only, to

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Volapük

Pronoun

ok

1. oneself

Declension

    declension of ok

	singular	plural
nominative	ok	oks
genitive	oka	okas
dative	oke	okes
accusative	oki	okis

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Wambon

Noun

ok

1. water

Further reading

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)

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Yessan-Mayo

Alternative forms

• okw

Noun

ok m

1. water

References

• Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method (2004, →ISBN
• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66 (as okw)