Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sokk

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

From Proto-Germanic *sukkaz.

*sokk m

1. light footwear
2. sock

• Old English: socc, soc
  • Middle English: socke, sokke, sok
    • English: sock
    • Scots: sock
• 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

• 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