Socke

German

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɔkə/ (prescriptive standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔkɛ/, [-ɡ̥ɛ] (Austria)

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• Hyphenation: So‧cke

Noun

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

1. sock

   Synonym: (in loose use) Strumpf

Declension

Declension of Socke [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Socke	die	Socken
genitive	einer	der	Socke	der	Socken
dative	einer	der	Socke	den	Socken
accusative	eine	die	Socke	die	Socken

Related terms

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

Descendants

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

  Cyrillic script: сокна

  Latin script: sokna

Further reading

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