Where does “Oka” come from?
Oka comes from Russian Ока́, a river name of unknown ultimate origin.
Oka (English): A kind of pungent, semi-soft cheese, originally...
Definitions
- A kind of pungent, semi-soft cheese, originally...
Ancestry of “Oka”, step by step
Oka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian oca
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | oca | goose; gander; goose, silly goose, airhead |
| 2 | French | oque | An oka: any of various units of mass formerly... |
| 3 | Ottoman Turkish | okka | — |
| 4 | Arabic | أُوقِيَّة | وِقِيَّة |
| 5 | Classical Syriac | ܐܘܢܩܝܐ | — |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | οὐγγία | — |
| 7 | Latin | uncia | The twelfth part of something; twelfth; The... |
| 8 | Old French | lonce | lynx |
| 9 | Italian | lonza | loin of pork; a term used in the Middle Ages to... |
| 10 | Vulgar Latin | luncea | — |
| 11 | Latin | lynx | A lynx |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | λύγξ | lynx; hiccup |
| 13 | Latin | canadensis | Canadian |
| 14 | Latin | -ensis | Of or from |
| 15 | Latin | arvum | field; farm land |
| 16 | Latin | colō | to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden |
| 17 | Latin | quelō | — |
| 18 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 20 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |