Socke

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German socke, from Old High German soc, a West Germanic borrowing from Latin soccus (“a light shoe or slipper, buskin”), from Ancient Greek σύκχος (súkkhos, “a kind of shoe”), probably from Phrygian or from an Anatolian language.

Cognate with Scots sok (“sock, stocking”), West Frisian sok (“sock”), Dutch sok (“sock”), English sock, Danish sok, sokke (“sock”), Swedish sock, socka (“sock”), Icelandic sokkur (“sock”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzɔkə/ (prescriptive standard)
  • IPA(key): /ˈsɔkɛ/, (Austria)
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  • Hyphenation: So‧cke

Noun

Socke f (genitive Socke, plural Socken, diminutive Söckchen n)

  1. sock
    Synonym: (in loose use) Strumpf

Declension

Declension of Socke
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Socke die Socken
genitive einer der Socke der Socken
dative einer der Socke den Socken
accusative eine die Socke die Socken

Descendants

  • → Estonian: sokk
  • → Hungarian: zokni
  • → Kashubian: żoka
  • → Latvian: zeķe
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: сокна
    Latin script: sokna

Further reading

  • “Socke” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Socke” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “Socke” in Duden online
  • Socke on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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