different between oyer vs oker

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman oyer (“hear”).

Noun

oyer (uncountable)

1. (law, archaic) A hearing in a civil case which is based on the content of a document, in which the plaintiff is required to produce the document.

Usage notes

• A defendant who formally asks for oyer is said to crave oyer.

Related terms

• oyer and terminer

Anagrams

• Roye, yero, yore

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin aud?re, present active infinitive of audi?.

Verb

oyer

1. to hear
2. to listen

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• oyíu

Old French

Verb

oyer

1. Alternative form of oïr

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English oker, okur, okir, okyr, ocker, from Old Norse ókr (“usury”), from Proto-Germanic *w?kraz (“progeny, earnings, profit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?weg- (“to add, increase”). Cognate with Scots ocker (“usury”), Icelandic ókur (“usury”), Swedish ocker (“usury”), German Wucher (“usury”), Dutch woeker (“usury”), Old English w?cor (“increase, growth, fruit, usury”), Gothic ???????????????????? (w?krs, “interest, usury, tax”), Latin augere (“to increase”). More at eke, wax.

Alternative forms

• ocker, occur, ockar, okir, okkir

Noun

oker (plural okers)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) Interest on money; usury; increase.

Verb

oker (third-person singular simple present okers, present participle okering, simple past and past participle okered)

1. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To increase (in price); add to.

Derived terms

• okerer
• okering

Etymology 2

Noun

oker (countable and uncountable, plural okers)

1. (mineralogy) Obsolete form of ochre.

Etymology 3

Noun

oker (plural okers)

1. Alternative form of oka (“unit of measurement”)
   • 1837, George Cochrane, Wanderings in Greece (volumes 1-2, page 296)

     Comparatively speaking, the Greek peasantry are wealthy; — a circumstance which, in most cases, produces contentment in the matrimonial state. I say wealthy, because, even in the interior of the country, a peasant can always gain his drachma per day; out of which he will buy an oker of bread (two pounds and a half,) which will cost him twenty-four leptas; […]

Anagrams

• Kore, kero, kore, roke

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?k?r

Noun

oker m (plural okers)

1. ochre (mineral)

Noun

oker n (uncountable)

1. ochre (colour)

Anagrams

• roek, roke

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ???? (?khra, “pale yellow”), from ????? (?khrós, “pale, ochre”).

Noun

oker m (definite singular okeren, indefinite plural okere or okre or okrer, definite plural okerne or okrene)

1. (mineralogy) ochre

Derived terms

• okergul

References

• “oker” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “oker” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ???? (?khra, “pale yellow”), from ????? (?khrós).

Noun

oker m (definite singular okeren, indefinite plural okrar, definite plural okrane)

1. (mineralogy) ochre

Derived terms

• okergul

References

• “oker” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

oker m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. ochre