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oko

oko

See also: óko, öko, o'ko, öko-, око, òkò, and ọkọ

Barasana

Noun

oko

  1. water
  2. rain

Derived terms

References

  • 1982, Hugh-Jones, Barasana Cosmology, in Ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy in the American tropics: oko sohe "the east (literally: the water door)", kuma oko "summer rain (by extension, any heavy rain)", oko uhu "master of water: the egret"

Carapana

Noun

oko

  1. water

References

  • Ronald G. Metzger, The Morpheme KA- of Carapana (Tucanoan)

Cubeo

Noun

oko

  1. water

References

  • Catching Language: The Standing Challenge of Grammar Writing (2006, ISBN 3110186039), citing Morse and Maxwell (1999)

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *oko, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oko/

Noun

oko n

  1. (anatomy) eye
  2. (card games) twenty-one, pontoon
  3. tarn
  4. eye (center of a storm)

Declension

Usage notes

  • The plural of definition 1 takes the dual form.

Derived terms

Esperanto

Etymology

ok ‎(“8”) +‎ -o ‎(“noun”)

Noun

oko ‎(accusative singular okon, plural okoj, accusative plural okojn)

  1. a number or numeral 8
  2. eightsome, a set of eight of something
    la kera oko
    the eight of hearts

Derived terms

See also

Playing cards in Esperanto · ludkartoj (layout · text)
aso duo trio kvaro kvino seso sepo
oko naŭo deko fanto, bubo damo reĝo ĵokero

Guaraní

Noun

oko

  1. home

Japanese

Romanization

oko

  1. rōmaji reading of おこ

Koreguaje

Noun

oko

  1. water

References

  • Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968), page 181

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɔkɔ]

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *oko, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-.

Noun

oko n ‎(diminutive oczko)

  1. (anatomy) eye
  2. drop of fat or oil floating on the surface of liquid
  3. (meteorology) eye of cyclone

Declension

(anatomy) (other uses)

*rare

Secoya

Alternative forms

Noun

oko

  1. water

References

  • Linguistic series of the Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma, issues 5-7 (1961)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ôko/
  • Hyphenation: o‧ko

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *oko, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-.

Noun

ȍko n ‎(Cyrillic spelling о̏ко)

  1. (anatomy) eye
Declension

Etymology 2

Preposition

ȍko ‎(Cyrillic spelling о̏ко)

  1. (with genitive) around
  2. (with genitive) about
  3. (with genitive) approximately
    Zaplijenjeno je oko 45 kg.
    Approximately 45 kg was seized.

Siona

Noun

oko

  1. water

References

  • Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968), page 181

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *oko, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-.

Noun

oko n ‎(genitive singular oka, declension pattern of mesto)

  1. eye
  2. sprout on a potato

Declension

#1 #2

References

  • oko in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *oko, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔˈkóː/
  • Tonal orthography: okọ̑

Noun

okó n ‎(genitive očésa, nominative plural očésa or očí)

  1. (anatomy) eye
  2. sprout on a potato

Declension

This noun has two plural forms, which are used in different situations:

  • When talking about the eyes in anatomical sense, the 2nd plural is used (for example: "My eyes hurt." - "Oči me bolijo."; or "The spiders have eight eyes." - "Pajki imajo osem oči.").
  • In other cases, where the word "oko" means other things (for example: "oko" meaning "a sprout on a potato"; or "kurje oko" meaning "a callus"), the normal plural is used.
  • The dual is used when referring specifically to both eyes (for example: "He lost both eyes in the war." - "V vojni je izgubil obe očesi.").

Tocharian B

Etymology

May be a derivative ultimately of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg- ‎(“increase, grow”); one theory suggests it was a borrowing from the Tocharian A oko, with the same meaning, but it was more likely that it was taken from B into A instead, as is more often the case. Alternatively, another plausible etymology may be Proto-Indo-European *h₂ógeh₂ ‎(“berry, fruit”) (compare Lithuanian úoga, Latvian oga, Russian я́года ‎(jágoda), Old English æcern (English acorn)).

Noun

oko

  1. fruit
  2. result, effect, consequence

Tucano

Noun

okó

  1. water

References

  • Estudios tucanos (1979), issue 3, page 16: [oko] 'agua' /oko/
  • HG

Tuyuca

Noun

okó

  1. water

References

  • Janet Barnes, notes on Tuyuca in Tucano, in The Amazonian Languages (Robert M. W. Dixon)

Warao

Pronoun

oko

  1. we

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