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oker en · NOUN · etymology 1

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.

Meanings

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

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oker en · VERB · etymology 1

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.

Meanings

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

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Deriveds

okering · okerer

oker en · NOUN · etymology 2

Meanings

1. (alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable) Obsolete form of ochre.
   alt of ochre

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oker en · NOUN · etymology 3

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of oka (“unit of measurement”).
   alt of oka
   • 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:

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