Noun: oker
Sample Sentences
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Comparatively speaking, the Greek peasantry are wealthy; — a circumstance which, in most cases, produces contentment in the matrimonial state. I say wealthy, because, even in the interior of the country, a peasant can always gain his drachma per day; out of which he will buy an oker of bread (two pounds and a half,) which will cost him twenty-four leptas; […] [1837, George Cochrane, Wanderings in Greece, volumes 1-2, page 296:]
Nouns inflected like oker
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English oker, okur, okir, okyr, ocker, from Old Norse ókr (“usury”), from Proto-Germanic *wōkraz (“progeny, earnings, profit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg- (“to add, increase”). Cognate with Scots ocker (“usury”), Icelandic ókur (“usury”), Swedish ocker (“usury”), German Wucher (“usury”), Dutch woeker (“usury”), Old English wōcor (“increase, growth, fruit, usury”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌺𐍂𐍃 (wōkrs, “interest, usury, tax”), Latin augere (“to increase”). More at eke, wax. See: Middle English Nouns '
oker', Old Norse Nouns '
ókr', Icelandic Nouns '
ókur', Swedish Nouns '
ocker', German Nouns '
Wucher', Dutch Nouns '
woeker', Old English Nouns '
wōcor', Gothic Nouns '
𐍅𐍉𐌺𐍂𐍃', Latin Nouns '
augere'.
Verbs referencing "oker"
Swedish Nouns
ocker, German Nouns
Wucher, Dutch Nouns
woeker.