woko

• hoko (obsolete)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *oko.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔkɔ/

woko n (nominative dual wócy, nominative plural (literal) wócy or (figurative) woka, diminutive wócko)

1. (literally) eye (light-sensitive organ)
2. (figuratively) any of a number of eye-shaped things:
   1. drop of grease
   2. loop (in ribbon, rope, etc.)
   3. eye (of a needle)
   4. link (of a chain)
   5. dot (on dice)
   6. small bud (on a plant)

Literal meaning

Figurative meanings

• Alternative dative singular (both literal and transferred): woku

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “woko”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “woko”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

woko class 5 (plural mawoko class 6)

1. hand

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ȍko.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɔkɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔkɔ
• Hyphenation: wo‧ko
• Syllabification: wo‧ko

woko n

1. (anatomy) eye (organ of vision consisting of the eyeball, located in the orbit and connected to the brain by the optic nerve)
   • 1896, Nowy Zakoń: Do hornjoserbsćiny po rjedźe Vulgaty prelozistaj Jurij Luscanski a Michal Hórnik‎^[1], Z nakladom towaŕstwa ss. Cyrilla a Methocija, page 150:

     Hdyž bě to prajił, pluny na zemju, a sčini błóto ze slinow, a pomaza błóto na jeho woči.

     When he had said this, he spat on the ground, and made mud of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the mud.

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