PROTO: *oker̄
MEANING: bent, curved, twisted, crooked
BZK: oker
GIP: oker
ANV: uker, oker
BNV: okher
SAL: oker
ZBR: ókher
COMMENTS: There are abstract meanings ('mistake(n), perverted, evil', etc.), and a verbal extension *oker̄-tu 'to bend, curve; go wrong,' etc. For semantic typology of Bsq ‘bend, twist’ ~ PNC ‘turn, roll’, cf. Irish fillim ‘bend, fold’ ~ Lat. volvere ‘roll, turn’, vallis ‘valley’ (‘bend’), etc.
