Féminin

Pocke

Signification

Concepts

(Anglais)

(feminine) pock
(feminine, in-plural) pox, smallpox (disease)

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈpɔkə/

Emprunté à Middle Low German

Appartenant à néerlandais

Appartenant à anglais

In summary

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.