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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sokk
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sukkaz.
Noun
*sokk m
- light footwear
- sock
Inflection
Masculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *sokk | |
Genitive | *sokkas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *sokk | *sokkō, *sokkōs |
Accusative | *sokk | *sokkā |
Genitive | *sokkas | *sokkō |
Dative | *sokkē | *sokkum |
Instrumental | *sokku | *sokkum |
Descendants
- Old English: socc, soc
- Middle English: socke, sokke, sok
- English: sock
- Scots: sock
- Middle English: socke, sokke, sok
- Old Frisian: sokka
- Saterland Frisian: Sokke
- West Frisian: sok
- Old Saxon: sok
- Plautdietsch: Sock
- Old High German: soc, sok, soch
- Middle High German: soc, socke
- Alemannic German: Sock, Socke, Sockä, Socka
- Central Franconian: Sock
- German: Socke (see there for further descendants)
- Vilamovian: zok
- Middle High German: soc, socke
Further reading
- von Richthofen, Karl (1840), “sokka”, in Altfriesisches Wörterbuch [Old Frisian Dictionary] (in German), Dieterich Göttingen, page 1039
- Hellquist, Elof (1922), “sock”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary] (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, page 820
- Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Socke”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 677