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From Middle Dutchdocke(“port, harbour, roadstead”), of uncertain origin. The original sense may have been "the furrow a grounded vessel makes in a mud bank". Compare Middle Low Germandocke(“dock”), borrowed from the Middle Dutch.
Some sources link this word to an unattested Middle Dutch*docke(“watercourse, trench, canal”), which is a ghost word, only being inferred from Mediaeval Latin documents in the form of ducta, doctus, doccia(“conduit, canal”). However, if this theory is correct, then it would relate the word to Italiandoccia(“drainpipe”).
“dok”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање edition, volume 1, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 717