okse

See also: ökse and 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. (informal) to slog

   Synonyms: knokle, mase

Conjugation

Conjugation of okse

active passive present okser — past oksede — infinitive okse — imperative oks — participle present oksende past okset (auxiliary verb have) gerund oksen

See also

• okse on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• “okse” in Den Danske Ordbog

Estonian

Etymology

From oksendama.

Noun

okse (genitive okse, partitive okset)

1. vomit

Declension

Declension of okse (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		okse	oksed
accusative	nom.
	gen.	okse
genitive			oksede
partitive		okset	oksesid
illative		oksesse	oksedesse
inessive		okses	oksedes
elative		oksest	oksedest
allative		oksele	oksedele
adessive		oksel	oksedel
ablative		okselt	oksedelt
translative		okseks	oksedeks
terminative		okseni	oksedeni
essive		oksena	oksedena
abessive		okseta	oksedeta
comitative		oksega	oksedega

Related terms

• oksendama

Further reading

• okse in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Middle English

Noun

okse

1. alternative form of oxe

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.

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.

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian oxa, from Proto-West Germanic *ohsō.

Noun

okse c (plural oksen, diminutive okske)

1. ox

Further reading

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