okkons

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

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
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