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.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sukkaz.

Noun

*sokk m

1. light footwear
2. sock

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	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
• 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

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]‎^[1] (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