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ak

“ak” is a Latvian word. Its 4 meanings in English:

interjection

  1. used to indicate various feelings: joy, excitement, fear, distress; oh! ah!
  2. used to express certain mental states — e.g., surprise, disappointment, disapproval — in an emotional but also intelligent, perceptive way; ah! oh!
  3. used to reinforce an interjection by either literally or metaphorically attributing some characteristic to the hearer; (ah,) you ... ! you ... ! oh ...!

particle

  1. used to give an interjectional flavor to an utterance, especially when expressing surprise; oh!

Etymology

Borrowed from German ach (“oh”). In 16th- and 17th-century literature, o or oh was often used in this sense. In a text from 1638, German ach is translated as ok, which points to a borrowing from Russian ох (ox). The from ak, from German, was introduced in the 17th-18th century.

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