Etymograph

English

sook

Sook comes from Old English sūcan ‘to suck’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *suk-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*suk-1reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*sūkaną1‘to suck’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*sūkan1‘to suck’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150sūcan2‘to suck’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1832sook2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Old English sucan
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English sook
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1832, Scottish proverbs: “Ae hour's cauld will sook out seven years' heat.”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*suk-Wiktionary, Old English sucanreconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*sūkanąWiktionary, Old English sucan‘to suck’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*sūkanWiktionary, Old English sucan‘to suck’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150sūcanWiktionary, English sook‘to suck’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1832sookWiktionary, English sook. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1832, Scottish proverbs: “Ae hour's cauld will sook out seven years' heat.”

Linked words

through Proto-Germanic *sūkaną ‘to suck’

soak, 1 more

through Proto-West Germanic *sūkan ‘to suck’

sucker, honeysuckle, 1 more

through Old English sūcan ‘to suck’

suck, soaking, 3 more

Another origin of sook

  1. Proto-Semiticc. 4000–3000 BCE*ṣ́yḳ-reconstructed
  2. Akkadianc. 2500–100 BCEsiāqumtransliteratedcuneiform siāqum, a transliteration; the original signs are in Wiktionary
  3. Akkadianc. 2500–100 BCE sūqumtransliteratedcuneiform sūqum, a transliteration; the original signs are in Wiktionary‘street’
  4. Aramaicc. 1000 BCE–700 CEשׁוּקָאšūqā’
  5. Arabicc. 500–presentسُوقsūq‘market’
  6. Englishtodaysook

Today it means

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Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “sook”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Old English sucan. 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 *suk- / sook

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