okkons

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

okka, kons, kans

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

(dialectal) our
Synonym: vår
- 1878, Lie, John, Hugaljo, Kristiania: Samlaget, page 23:
  i okkons vene Heim
  in our beautiful home

References

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

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