oker
oker noun: interest on money; usury; increase. Also the obsolete form of ochre.
Noun
oker (plural okers)
Verb
oker (third-person singular simple present okers, present participle okering, simple past and past participle okered)
Adjective capitalized: OKer
OKer
Also used as
oker is also the obsolete form of ochre.
oker is also the alternative form of oka.
Forms of oker
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | okers |
| alternative form | ocker |
| alternative form | occur |
| alternative form | ockar |
| alternative form | okir |
| alternative form | okkir |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | okers |
| present participle | okering |
| past participle | okered |
| past | okered |
Origin of oker
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.
Words formed from oker
- okerer
- okering
Questions about oker
- What does oker mean?
- Oker means interest on money; usury; increase.
- What part of speech is oker?
- Oker can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
- What is the plural of oker?
- The plural of oker is okers.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: oker (page history and authors); OKer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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