Proto-Basque: *oker̄
Meaning: bent, curved, twisted, crooked
Bizkaian: oker
Gipuzkoan: oker
High Navarrese: uker, oker
Low Navarrese: okher
Salazarese: oker
Zuberoan: 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.
