okkons

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• okka, kons, kans
• aakan (Glossarium Norvagicum of E. Pontoppidan, 1749)

Etymology

From Old Norse okkarn with a genitive -s added. The former was the accusative masculine singular of okkarr, from Proto-Germanic *unkeraz, possessive determiners of Old Norse vit and Proto-Germanic *wet respectively, the first-person dual pronoun.

Determiner

okkons

1. (dialectal) our

   Synonym: vår

   • 1878, John Lie, Hugaljo, Kristiania: Samlaget, page 23:

     i okkons vene Heim

     in our beautiful home

References

• Ivar Aasen (1850), “vår”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog‎ (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000