English
locking
From lock + -ing.
A compound of lock + -ing
Proto-Indo-European *lewg- ‘to bend’
Proto-Germanic *luką
Proto-West Germanic *lok ‘shutter’
Old English loc
Middle English lok
English lock
Today it means
noun The use of a lock or a mutex to restrict access to a part of the code to at most one process.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “locking”. 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 / locking