Etymograph

English

hattock

Hattock comes from Old Norse hǫttr ‘cowl or covering’, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz ‘hat’, and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- ‘to guard, cover, protect, care for’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kadʰ-1‘to guard, cover, protect, care for’uncertain
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kadʰnú-1uncertain
  3. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*hattuz2‘hat’reconstructed
  4. Old Norsec. 800–1350hǫttr3‘cowl or covering’
  5. Englishtodayhattock3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Proto-Germanic *hattuz, which cites Kroonen
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Old Norse hǫttr
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English hattock

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kadʰ-Wiktionary, Proto-Germanic *hattuz, which cites Kroonen‘to guard, cover, protect, care for’uncertain
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kadʰnú-Wiktionary, Proto-Germanic *hattuz, which cites Kroonenuncertain
  3. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*hattuzWiktionary, Old Norse hǫttr‘hat’reconstructed
  4. Old Norsec. 800–1350hǫttrWiktionary, English hattock‘cowl or covering’
  5. EnglishtodayhattockWiktionary, English hattock

Formed from ock ‘diminutive suffix’

Proto-Semitic *ʔaḫw- ‘brother’

Arabic أَخ ‘brother’

English ock

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- ‘to guard, cover, protect, care for’

hood, hut, heed, 2 more

through Proto-Germanic *hattuz ‘hat’

hat

Today it means

noun A shock of standing sheaves of corn or grain, the tops of which are covered and protected by two sheaves laid in such a way as to carry off rain; the two covering sheaves, also called hood sheaves or hooders.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “hattock”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Proto-Germanic *hattuz, Old Norse hǫttr. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- / hattock

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