око

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *oko.

• IPA^(key): [oˈkɔ]

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око́ • (okó) n (relational adjective о́чен)

1. (anatomy) eye

Inherited from Old Ruthenian о́ко (óko), from Proto-Slavic *oko.

око • (oko)

1. (anatomy) eye

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *oko.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔkɔ]

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• Syllabification: о‧ко
• Hyphenation: око

око • (oko) n (plural очи, relational adjective очен, diminutive окце or оче, augmentative очиште)

1. (anatomy) eye

• “око” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) [Digital dictionary of the Macedonian language] − drmj.eu

• Glagolitic: ⱁⰽⱁ (oko)
• ꙩко (oko) (with monocular o) (with ꙫчи (oči) (dual with binocular o) and ꙭчи (oči) (dual with double monocular o))

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *oko.

око • (oko) n

1. (anatomy) eye
2. vision, sight

The singular takes o-stem or s-stem endings, the dual takes mostly i-stem endings, and the plural takes s-stem endings. Halla-aho considers the dual forms a remnant of an original i-stem which later became an s-stem, but Derksen reconstructs the Proto-Slavic form as an o-stem instead.

• многоочитый (mnogoočityj)
• многоꙮчитїй (mnogoočitij)

• Cejtlin, R.M.; Večerka, R.; Blagova, E., editors (1994), “око”, in Старославянский словарь (по рукописям X—XI веков) [Old Church Slavonic Dictionary (Based on 10–11th Century Manuscripts)] (overall work in Russian), Moscow: Russkij jazyk
• Hauptova Z., editor (1958–1997), “око”, in Slovník jazyka staroslověnského (Lexicon linguae palaeoslovenicae) (overall work in Czech), Prague: Euroslavica
• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• Halla-aho, Jussi (2006) Problems of Proto-Slavic Historical Nominal Morphology: On the Basis of Old Church Slavic (Slavica Helsingiensia; 26), Helsinki: University of Helsinki

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *oko. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic око (oko).

• Hyphenation: о‧ко

око (oko) n

1. eye
   • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik‎^[3], page 4:

     отъкрꙑи бо рече очи мои да раꙁоумѣю чюдеса отъ ꙁакона твоѥго

     otŭkryi bo reče oči moi da razuměju čjudesa otŭ zakona tvojego

     For he says "Open my eyes so that I understand the miracles from your testament."

• Old Ruthenian: о́ко (óko), во́ко (vóko)
  • Belarusian: во́ка (vóka)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: о́ко (óko), во́ко (vóko)
  • Ukrainian: о́ко (óko), (dialectal) во́ко (vóko), го́ко (hóko)
• Russian: о́ко (óko) (dated, archaic)

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “око”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[4] (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 642

First attested in c. 1100‒1120. Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ȍko, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ak-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ókʷs (“eye”), from *h₃ekʷ- (“to see; eye”). Cognate with Old East Slavic око (oko), Old Ruthenian о́ко (óko), Old Church Slavonic око / ⱁⰽⱁ (oko), Old Polish oko, Old Czech oko.

око • (oko) n (dual оци)^[1]

1. (anatomy) eye

First attested in c. 1180‒1200. By surface analysis, о (o) +‎ ко (ko). Cognate with Old East Slavic око (oko).

око • (oko)^[2]

1. that
2. as
3. so, so that

• “око”, in “Birchbark Letters Corpus”, in Russian National Corpus, https://ruscorpora.ru, 2003–2025

• во́ко (vóko)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *oko.

око • (oko) n inan (genitive plural о́чи)

1. eye
2. sight, look

• Belarusian: во́ка (vóka)
• Carpathian Rusyn: о́ко (óko), во́ко (vóko)
• Ukrainian: о́ко (óko), (dialectal) во́ко (vóko), го́ко (hóko)

• Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1930), “воко; око”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 1 (А – Г), Kharkiv, Kyiv: State Publishing House of Ukraine, page 294
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1978), “*око¹”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Н – Ѳ), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 78
• Bulyka, A. M., editor (2002), “око, воко”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 22 (оддыханье – ость), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 136
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1997), “воко; око”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 4 (весь – вправѣ), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 197
• Tymchenko, E. K. (2003) “око”, in Nimchuk, V. V., editor, Матеріали до словника писемної та книжної української мови XV–XVIII ст. [Materials for the Dictionary of the Written and Book Ukrainian Language of 15ᵗʰ–18ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volumes 2 (О – Я), Kyiv, New York: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., →ISBN, page 32

Inherited from Old Slovak oko, from Proto-Slavic *oko. Cognates include Carpathian Rusyn о́ко (óko), во́ко (vóko) and Slovak oko.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔkɔ]
• Rhymes: -ɔkɔ
• Hyphenation: око

око (oko) n (diminutive очичко, augmentative очиско, related adjective оков or очни)

1. eye

   маче око ― mače oko ― cat's eye

   оч до оч ― oč do oč ― eye-to-eye

• The genitive plural form оч (oč) is only used in certain fixed phrases before or after prepositions.

• Medʹeši, H., Fejsa, M., Timko-Djitko, O. (2010) “око”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Руско-сербски словнїк [Rusyn-Serbian Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy
• Fejsa, M., Šlemender, M., Čelʹovski, S. (2022) “eye”, in Анґлийско-руски словнїк [English-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy; Ruska matka, →ISBN, page 109

Inherited from Old East Slavic око (oko), from Proto-Slavic *oko, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-.

• IPA^(key): [ˈokə]

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о́ко • (óko) n inan (genitive о́ка, nominative plural о́чи^*, genitive plural оче́й^*) (* о́чи is actually an old nominative dual form for neuter nouns.)

1. (dated or poetic or literary) eye (used in proverbs and expressions)

   Synonym: (a more common term) глаз m (glaz)

   о́чи чёрные ― óči čórnyje ― dark eyes

   Ви́дит о́ко, да зу́б неймёт. ― Vídit óko, da zúb nejmjót. ― The eye sees (it) but the tooth cannot take it.

• окно́ n (oknó)
  • око́нный (okónnyj), подоко́нник m (podokónnik)

• о́чень (óčenʹ)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “око”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “око”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 594

• око in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru

• IPA^(key): /ôko/
• Hyphenation: о‧ко

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *oko.

о̏ко n (Latin spelling ȍko)

1. (anatomy) eye

• “око”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• “око”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• “око”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

о̏ко (Latin spelling ȍko) [with genitive]

1. around, about, approximately

   Заплијењено је око 45 кг. ― Approximately 45 kg was seized.

• “око”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• “око”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔkɔ]

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Inherited from Old Ruthenian о́ко (óko), from Proto-Slavic *oko.

о́ко • (óko) n inan (genitive о́ка, nominative plural о́чі, genitive plural оче́й, relational adjective о́чний)

1. eye

The genitive singular, о́ка (óka), is used after the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish اوقه.

о́ко • (óko) n inan (genitive о́ка, nominative plural о́ка, genitive plural ок or вік)

1. (archaic) oka: A unit of weight, approximately 1.2 kg.
2. (archaic) oka: A measure for alcoholic beverages, approximately 1-1.5 liters.

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2003), “о́ко”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 4 (Н – П), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 170
• Hrinchenko, Borys, editor (1907–1909), “о́ко”, in Словарь украинского языка [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Russian), Kyiv: Kievskaya starina
• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “око”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2010–2025), “око”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1–15 (а – п'ять), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka; Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
• “око”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)
• “око”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
• “око”, in Словник.ua [Slovnyk.ua] (in Ukrainian)