oker

From Middle English oker, okur, okir, okyr, ocker, from Old Norse ókr (“usury”), from Proto-Germanic *wōkraz (“progeny, earnings, profit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“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.

• ocker, occur, ockar, okir, okkir

oker (plural okers)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) Interest on money; usury; increase.

oker (third-person singular simple present okers, present participle okering, simple past and past participle okered)

1. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To increase (in price); add to.

• okerer
• okering

oker (countable and uncountable, plural okers)

1. (mineralogy) Obsolete form of ochre.^[1]

oker (plural okers)

1. Alternative form of oka (“unit of measurement”)
   • 1837, George Cochrane, Wanderings in Greece, volumes 1-2, page 296:

     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; […]

• Kore, kero, kore, roke

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• Rhymes: -oːkər

oker m (plural okers)

1. ochre (mineral)

oker n (uncountable)

1. ochre (colour)

• roek, roke

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra, “pale yellow”), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “pale, ochre”).

oker m (definite singular okeren, indefinite plural okere or okre or okrer, definite plural okerne or okrene)

1. (mineralogy) ochre

• okergul

• “oker” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “oker” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra, “pale yellow”), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós).

oker m (definite singular okeren, indefinite plural okrar, definite plural okrane)

1. (mineralogy) ochre

• okergul

• “oker” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

òker m (Cyrillic spelling о̀кер)

1. ochre