kåk

See also: kak, kaak, käk, and k’áak’

Swedish

Etymology

Probably from an older sense, meaning a pole where different punishments where carried out on; probably denoting the structure or scaffolding the pole were raised on. If so, then inherited from Old Swedish kaker, from Middle Low German kāk.

Noun

kåk c

  1. (slang) house, building (often of bad quality or damaged)
  2. (slang) prison
  3. (poker) full house, a combination of a pair and three-of-a-kind

Declension
Declension of kåk 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative kåk kåken kåkar kåkarna
Genitive kåks kåkens kåkars kåkarnas
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