The story
- Arabic · borrowed fromأَخ“brother”
- English todayocky
Borrowed from Arabic أَخ (ʔaḵ, “brother”) + ـِي (-ī, “my”), doublet of akhi. Also diminutive of ock (“a man of Middle Eastern descent who runs a deli or bodega”)
Words from the same roots
Arabicأَخ all →
ockakh
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.