pocc

See also: PoCC and POCC

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *pukkaz, *pukkǭ (“pock; swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to grow; swell”).

Noun

pocc m

1. pock, pustule, ulcer

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	pocc	poccas
accusative	pocc	poccas
genitive	pocces	pocca
dative	pocce	poccum

Descendants

• Middle English: pok
  • English: pock, pox
  • Scots: pock

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “pocc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.