# okno
## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech okno, from Proto-Slavic *okъnò.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈokno]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ok‧no

### Noun

okno n
* window
    Někdy se dívám z okna, odtud ze židle. ― Sometimes I look through the window from the chair.
* (colloquial) blackout
    Mám okno. Co se stalo? ― I have a blackout. What has happened?

#### Derived terms

* okenní

#### Related terms

* vyhodíte ho dveřmi a vrátí se oknem

### Further reading

* “okno”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “okno”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “okno”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Old Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okъnò.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (13th CE) /ˈokno/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ˈokno/

### Noun

okno n
* window
* sinkhole (depression in marshy soil filled with water)

#### Descendants

* Czech: okno

### Further reading

* Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “okno”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

## Old Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okъnò. First attested in the 14th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (10th–15th CE) /ɔknɔ/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ɔknɔ/

### Noun

okno n
* (attested in Masovia, Greater Poland) window (opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building)
    Synonym: okieńce
** 1879 [1429], Jan Tadeusz Lubomirski, editor, Księga ziemi czerskiej 1404-1425. Liber terrae Cernensis‎, Masovia, page LXXXI:Jaco mnye Jan nye dal oken wyrabycz, any drzvi czynycz, alyszbi ischba bila gothowa[Jako mnie Jan nie dał okien wyrębić, ani drzwi czynić, aliżby izba była gotowa]
** c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 132r:Subscella slvp v okną[Subscella slup u okna]
* well opening (top opening of the well through which the brine was drawn to the ground surface, specially enclosed and secured)
** 1868 [1457], Akta grodzkie i ziemskie z czasów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej : z archiwum tak zwanego bernardyńskiego we Lwowie w skutek fundacyi śp. Alexandra hr. Stadnickiego‎, volume XII, page 251:Budko non debet retinere homines transeuntes per viam ad silwas et ad okno salis[Budko non debet retinere homines transeuntes per viam ad silwas et ad okno salis]
* (biblical, attested in Lesser Poland) gates and locks that stop the heavenly waters from falling to the ground
** 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎, Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 41, 9:Gløbocoscz gløbocoscz wziwa w glosse oken (cataractarum) twogich[Głębokość głębokość wzywa w głosie okien (cataractarum) twojich]

#### Derived terms

* okiennik

#### Related terms

* okieńce

#### Descendants

* Polish: okno, ôkno (Przemyśl)
* Silesian: ôkno

### References

* Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “okno”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
* Mańczak, Witold (2017) “okno”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
* Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “okno”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
* B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “okno”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
* Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “okno”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

## Old Slovak
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okъnò. First attested in 1473.

### Noun

okno n
* window (opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building)
* (figuratively, biblical) window (gate to Heaven)
* window (shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening)
* window (pane or glass of a window opening)
* (by extension) window (any opening similar to a window)

#### Descendants

* Slovak: okno

### References

* Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “okno”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* ôkno (Przemyśl)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish okno.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔk.nɔ/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /ˈɔk.nɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔknɔ
* Syllabification: ok‧no
* Homophone: Okno

### Noun

okno n (diminutive okienko, related adjective okienny)
* window (opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building)
* window (opening, usually covered by glass, in a shop which allows people to view the shop and its products from outside; a shop window)
* window (shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening)
* window (glass or pane of a window opening)
* window (any free place that allows light to pass through and allows one to see something or look inside something)
* (graphical user interface) window (rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes)
* (mining) ventilation hole pierced in a coal wall between excavations
* opening of an animal's dwelling hole
* (rare, obsolete) window (period of time when something is available or possible)
    Synonym: okienko
* (obsolete, engineering) opening in an engine cylinder

#### Derived terms

* Panu Bogu w okno
* aktywne okno
* okiennica
* okno dialogowe
* okno na świat
* okno Overtona
* okno pogodowe
* okno transferowe
* okno weneckie
* okno wystawowe
* okno zespolone
* okno życia
* walić drzwiami i oknami impf

#### Related terms

* bezokienny

### Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), okno is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 3 times in essays, 63 times in fiction, and 35 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 126 times, making it the 475th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

### References

* ↑ Ida Kurcz (1990) “okno”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 328

### Further reading

* okno in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* okno in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “okno”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* “OKNO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 16.08.2008
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “okno”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “okno”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “okno”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 736
* okno in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okъno.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ǒkno/
* Hyphenation: ok‧no

### Noun

òkno n (Cyrillic spelling о̀кно)
* pane (of windows)
* shaft, pit (in mines)
* (Kajkavian) window (opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building)
    Synonyms: prozor, oblok, ponistra

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “okno”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Slovak
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okъno.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔknɔ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

okno n
* window (opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building)
    Synonym: oblok

#### Derived terms

* okienko n
* oknár m
* okenný

### Further reading

* “okno”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Slovene
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *okъno.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔ̀ːknɔ/

### Noun

ókno n
* window (opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building)

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

### Further reading

* “okno”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025