okka

From Turkish okka.

okka (plural okkas)

1. (historical units of measure) Alternative form of oka.

• koka, Okak

• IPA^(key): /²ɔk.kɑ/

Either form Old Norse okkar, genitive of the first-person dual personal pronoun vit, or from Old Norse okkarr, possessive determiner of the same. Some of the other dialectal variants owe their -n to the Old Norse accusative masculine singular form okkarn. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *unkeraz.

• aakan, okkons, kons, kans

okka

1. (dialectal) our
   • 1999, Arnt Olav Klippenberg, Det e løye me det, [Egersund]: Dalane tidene, page 13:

     Han sko holda konsert å va innom å såg revyen okka.

     He came in briefly and saw our revue.

   • 1995, Tobias Skretting, Mellom frendar, [Nærbø]: T. Skretting, page 32:

     [D]ei gamle heidenske skikkane og truene [levde] vidare like opp til okka tid[.]

     The old heathen practices and beliefs survived up until our time.

   • c. 1700, Sigurd Kolsrud, quoting Jacob Rasch, “Eldste nynorske bibeltekst: Jacob Rasch c. 1700”, in Syn og Segn, volume 56, published 1950, page 110:

     fre a Gud okka far aa Jesu Christo den herræ.

     peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

• Dialects which use this word as the first-person plural possessive determiner (and pronoun), normally also use a variant of okke as their first-person oblique pronoun. Both of them hail from the dual inflection of Old Norse personal pronouns.

okka

1. (dialectal) ours

   okka e best ― ours is best

Onomatopoeic. Cf. with interjection okk.

• okke (e- and split infinitives)

okka (present tense okkar, past tense okka, past participle okka, passive infinitive okkast, present participle okkande, imperative okka/okk)

1. (reflexive) to complain, gruntle, to whine

   Synonym: akka

• “okka” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• Ivar Aasen (1850) “okka”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog‎^[1] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000

From Ottoman Turkish اوقه (okka).

okka

1. (units of measure) Synonym of kilogram.
2. (historical units of measure) An oka, a former Turkish unit of weight, usually of a little more than a kilogram.