okse

See also: økse

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse oxi, uxi, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô, from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn (“ox, bull”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɔksə/, [ˈʌɡ̊sə]

Noun

okse c (singular definite oksen, plural indefinite okser)

  1. ox (bovine animal used as a beast of burden or for food, especially a castrated male cattle)
  2. beef (meat from a cow, bull or other bovines)

Inflection
Declension of okse
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative okse oksen okser okserne
genitive okses oksens oksers oksernes

Verb

okse (imperative oks, infinitive at okse, present tense okser, past tense oksede, perfect tense har okset)

  1. to slog

Synonyms

See also

Estonian

Noun

okse (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. vomit

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse oxi, uxi, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô, from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn (“ox, bull”).

Noun

okse m (definite singular oksen, indefinite plural okser, definite plural oksene)

  1. bull, ox

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms
  • ukse

Etymology

From Old Norse oxi, uxi

Noun

okse m (definite singular oksen, indefinite plural oksar, definite plural oksane)

  1. bull, ox

Derived terms

References

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian oxa, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô, from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn (“ox, bull”).

Noun

okse c (plural oksen, diminutive okske)

  1. ox

Further reading
  • “okse”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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