different between oke vs okeh

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

Verb

oke

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of ache
2. (obsolete) simple past tense of ake

Etymology 2

See oka

Noun

oke (plural okes)

1. (historical units of measurement) Alternative form of oka.
   • 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia, Vol. XXX, s.v. "Rottolo":

     At Constantinople, the cantaro, or quintal, contains 44 okes, or 100 rottoli; and the cantaro weighs about 123¾ lbs. avoirdupois, the oke 2lbs. 13 oz., and the rottolo 19⁴?₅ oz., and the chequee 11¼ oz. avoirdupois... At Smyrna, the cantaro, or kintal, contains 45 okes, or 100 rottoli. The batman is 6 okes, or 2400 drachms; and the oke is 400 drachms, and the rottolo = 180 drachms. The cantaro of 45 okes weighs 123 lbs. 4 oz. avoirdupois; and, therefore, the oke is = 2 lbs. 11 oz. 13 drs. avoirdupois...

References

• oke in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Etymology 3

Shortened borrowing from Afrikaans outjie.

Noun

oke (plural okes)

1. (South Africa, slang) Man; guy; bloke.
   • 2005, Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex:

     I had initiated an African ritual by giving the pipe to him. And you can never stay befuck with an oke you smoke nchangu with.

   • 2009 (2016), Kevin Richardson, Part of the Pride: My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa, page 39:

     When that oke talked, I listened.

Etymology 4

From Middle English oke

Noun

oke (plural okes)

1. Obsolete spelling of oak

Anagrams

• EKO, Keo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ke??/

Etymology

From English OK

Interjection

oke

1. OK, okay

Esperanto

Etymology

ok +? -e

Adverb

oke

1. eighthly

Indonesian

Etymology

From English OK

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ke/
• Hyphenation: oké

Interjection

oké

1. (colloquial) OK (acceptance, acknowledgement)

Verb

oké

1. (colloquial) OK (acceptance, acknoledgement)

Further reading

• “oke” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

oke

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Mikasuki

Noun

oke

1. water

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

oke

1. inflection of oka:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Ternate

Verb

oke

1. drink

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001). A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. University of Pittsburgh.

English

Etymology

Sometimes said to be from Choctaw oke, okeh (“it is so”). Probably simply a variant of OK.

Interjection

okeh

1. Dated form of OK.

Verb

okeh (third-person singular simple present okehs, present participle okehing, simple past and past participle okehed)

1. Dated form of OK.

References

• Grammar of the Choctaw language, ed. by D. G. Brinton, 1870, p20, okeh
• Fay, Jim, Ph.D. (Revised) , “The Choctaw Expression "Okeh" and the Americanism "Okay"”, in (Please provide the title of the work)?^[4] (HTML, in English), archived from the original on 24 December 2010

Anagrams

• Hoke, hoke