Pocke
Appearance
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Pocke f (genitive Pocke, plural Pocken)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Pocke [feminine]
Synonyms
[edit](pock):
(disease):
Hyponyms
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Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Pocke” in Duden online
- “Pocke” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Categories:
- German terms borrowed from Middle Low German
- German terms derived from Middle Low German
- German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- German 2-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German feminine nouns
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