Etymograph

English

slock

Cognate with German Schluck (“a draught; a gulp”), Dutch slok (“a draught; a gulp”).

A blend of sock + lock

Ancient Greek συγχίς ‘a kind of shoe’

Latin soccus ‘a light shoe or slipper, buskin’

Old English socc ‘sock, light shoe, slipper’

Middle English socke

English sock

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 A draught; a gulp.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “slock”. 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.

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