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

light footwear
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

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