okke
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See also: okkē
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Norse okkr, accusative and dative of the first-person dual pronoun vit.
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
okke
- (dialectal) objective case of me: us
- 1947, Engvald Bakkan, Krossen er din, Oslo: Gyldendal, page 122:
- Så me fær samla okke noke te i morgo.
- So we'll have to gather us something for tomorrow.
Usage notes[edit]
- This word is considered dialectal. Standard Norwegian Nynorsk uses the possessive determiner oss instead. Most dialects use that, or at least some other variant thereof.
- Dialects which use this as their first-person objective case personal pronoun, usually also have okka (or a variant thereof), as the respective possessive determiner or pronoun.
Etymology 2[edit]
H-dropping of hokke. From Old Norse hvatki. Compare with korkje.
Pronunciation[edit]
Determiner[edit]
okke
Conjunction[edit]
okke
- (dialectal) neither
- 1912, Adolf Skramstad, Sambygdinger, Kristiania: Norli, page 32:
- før hæin estimerde itte okke folk hell fæ hæin Søren da
- cuz Søren didn't regard neither man nor beast
Etymology 3[edit]
Onomatopoeic, if not from the interjection okk.
Alternative forms[edit]
- okka (a-infinitive)
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
okke (present tense okkar, past tense okka, past participle okka, passive infinitive okkast, present participle okkande, imperative okke/okk)
References[edit]
- “okke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- Ivar Aasen (1850) “okke”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog[1] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
Anagrams[edit]
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