dok

Betekenis (Engels)

dock

Sinonieme

droogdok

haventje

Vertalings

dock

Dock

doca

dock

προσγείωση

docks

dry dock

embarkation point

wharf

landing place

drydock

bassin

darse

cale sèche

darsena

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dɔk/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle Dutch: docke

Verwante met Middle Low German: docke

Verwante met Italiaans: doccia

Verwante met Middle Dutch: docke

Verwante met Noors: dokk

Verwante met Yslands: dökk

Verwante met Sweeds: dank

In summary

From Middle Dutch docke (“port, harbour, roadstead”), of uncertain origin. The original sense may have been "the furrow a grounded vessel makes in a mud bank". Compare Middle Low German docke (“dock”), borrowed from the Middle Dutch.
Some sources link this word to an unattested Middle Dutch *docke (“watercourse, trench, canal”), which is a ghost word, only being inferred from Mediaeval Latin documents in the form of ducta, doctus, doccia (“conduit, canal”). However, if this theory is correct, then it would relate the word to Italian doccia (“drainpipe”).
An alternative theory ties Middle Dutch docke to a North Germanic/Scandinavian source, notably Old Norse dǫkk (“depression in the landscape, pit, pool, trench”), from Proto-Germanic *dankwaz (“dark”). If so, related to Norwegian dokk (“hollow, low ground”), Old Icelandic dökk, also dökð (“pit, pool”), Swedish dank (“marshy ground”).