orko

Esperanto

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈorko]
  • Rhymes: -orko
  • Hyphenation: or‧ko

Etymology 1

From English orc, ultimately from Latin Orcus. Doublet of orcino.

Noun

orko (accusative singular orkon, plural orkoj, accusative plural orkojn)

  1. (fantasy, mythology) orc
    • 2007, William Auld (translator), La du turegoj, 2nd edition, translation of The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien:
      Sendube la orkoj prirabis ilin, sed timis reteni la tranĉilojn, ĉar ili sciis, kio ili estas: laboraĵoj de Okcidentio, envolvitaj per sorĉaĵoj por misfartigi Mordoron.
      The orcs must have robbed them but been afraid to keep the knives, for they knew what they were: works of the Westlands, magically put together in order to cause Mordor ill.

Etymology 2

From Latin orca.

Noun

orko (accusative singular orkon, plural orkoj, accusative plural orkojn)

  1. orca, killer whale
    Synonym: granda orcino

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *orko (compare Estonian org, Ingrian orko, Livonian urg), possibly from Proto-Finno-Permic *orkɜ.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈorko/, [ˈo̞rko̞]
  • Rhymes: -orko
  • Syllabification(key): or‧ko

Noun

orko

  1. (dialectal, archaic) dell (valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep)

Declension
Inflection of orko (Kotus type 1*D/valo, k- gradation)
nominative orko orot
genitive oron orkojen
partitive orkoa orkoja
illative orkoon orkoihin
singular plural
nominative orko orot
accusative nom. orko orot
gen. oron
genitive oron orkojen
partitive orkoa orkoja
inessive orossa oroissa
elative orosta oroista
illative orkoon orkoihin
adessive orolla oroilla
ablative orolta oroilta
allative orolle oroille
essive orkona orkoina
translative oroksi oroiksi
instructive — oroin
abessive orotta oroitta
comitative — orkoineen
Possessive forms of orko (type valo)
possessor singular plural
1st person orkoni orkomme
2nd person orkosi orkonne
3rd person orkonsa

Synonyms

Anagrams

Ingrian

Etymology

Akin to Estonian org and Livonian urg.

Noun

orko

  1. valley

Polish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɔr.kɔ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrkɔ
  • Syllabification: or‧ko

Noun

orko f

  1. vocative singular of orka

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *orko.

Pronunciation
  • (Luuditsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈorko/, [ˈorko]
  • Rhymes: -orko
  • Hyphenation: or‧ko

Noun

orko

  1. valley, vale, dale

Inflection
Declension of orko (type II/võrkko, k-g gradation)
singular plural
nominative orko orgod
genitive orgo orkoje, orkojõ, orkoi
partitive orkoa orkoitõ, orkoi
illative orko, orkosõ orkoje, orkojõ, orkoisõ
inessive orgoz orkoiz
elative orgossõ orkoissõ
allative orgolõ orkoilõ
adessive orgollõ orkoillõ
ablative orgoltõ orkoiltõ
translative orgossi orkoissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative or the genitive.
***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References
  • V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012), “orko”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2 edition, Tallinn
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