Pocke

16th century, from Middle Low German pocke, from Proto-Germanic *pukkǭ, *pukkaz (“pock, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to grow, swell”).

Cognate with Dutch pok, English pock. Displaced the variants Poche, Pfoche, which may go back to related Proto-Germanic *pukô, but are perhaps merely inadequate adaptations of the Low German form. The native High German word for “pock” is Blatter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔkə/
• Hyphenation: Po‧cke

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Pocke f (genitive Pocke, plural Pocken)

1. pock
2. (in the plural, pathology) pox, smallpox (disease)

(pock):

• Blatter

(disease):

• Blattern

(disease):

• Affenpocken
• Katzenpocken
• Kuhpocken
• Schafpocken
• Windpocken
• Ziegenpocken

• pockennarbig

• “Pocke” in Duden online
• “Pocke” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Pocke”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.