Noun: åk
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like åk
antiklimaks,
symbol,
system,
sysken,
kroppsvev,
snøras,
sexliv,
sekret,
senter,
samråd,
samvit,
samvær,
samløp,
mikrosekund,
sesongkort,
sovjet,
solbær,
sjøfly,
sjøliv,
sirkus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse ok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm. Cognate with English yoke, Latin iugum (English jugular), Sanskrit युग (yugá, “yoke, team”), Old Church Slavonic иго (igo) (whence Russian иго (igo)), Persian یوق (yowq). Compare English yoga. Doublet of yoga. See: Old Norse Nouns '
ok', English Nouns '
yoke', Latin Nouns '
iugum', English Nouns '
jugular', Russian Nouns '
иго', English Nouns '
yoga'.
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