Socke

• Socken

From Middle High German socke, from Old High German soc, a West Germanic borrowing from Latin soccus (“a light shoe or slipper, buskin”), from Ancient Greek σύκχος (súkkhos, “a kind of shoe”), probably from Phrygian or from an Anatolian language.

Cognate with Scots sok (“sock, stocking”), West Frisian sok (“sock”), Dutch sok (“sock”), English sock, Danish sok, sokke (“sock”), Swedish sock, socka (“sock”), Icelandic sokkur (“sock”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɔkə/ (Germany)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔkɛ/, [-ɡ̥ɛ] (Austria, Southern Germany, Switzerland)
• Hyphenation: So‧cke

Socke f (genitive Socke, plural Socken, diminutive Söckchen n)

1. sock

   Synonym: (in loose use) Strumpf

• Baumwollsocke, Nahkampfsocke, Schlauchsocke, Wollsocke
• Sockenabteilung, Sockenhalter, Sockenpuppe

• → Estonian: sokk
• → Hungarian: zokni
• → Kashubian: żoka
• → Latvian: zeķe
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: сокна

  Latin script: sokna

• “Socke” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Socke” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Socke” in Duden online
• Socke on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de