Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *sukkaz (whence also Old English socc, Old High German soc), from Latin soccus.

Noun

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sokkr m

  1. sock

Descendants

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  • Icelandic: sokkur
  • Faroese: sokkur
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sokk
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sokk
  • Danish: sok
  • Swedish: socka

References

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  • sokkr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press