Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sukkaz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Latin soccus,[1][2][3] from Ancient Greek σύκχος (súkkhos, “a kind of shoe”), probably from Phrygian, Anatolian, or another substrate language from Asia Minor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /suk.kɑz/
Noun
*sukkaz m
- light footwear
- sock
- Coordinate terms: *skōhaz, *hrifilingaz
Inflection
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | *sukkaz | *sukkōz, *sukkōs |
| vocative | *sukk | *sukkōz, *sukkōs |
| accusative | *sukką | *sukkanz |
| genitive | *sukkas, *sukkis | *sukkǫ̂ |
| dative | *sukkai | *sukkamaz |
| instrumental | *sukkō | *sukkamiz |
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *sokk
- Old Norse: sokkr
- → Proto-Finnic: *sukka (see there for further descendants)
References
- ^ 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