Etymograph

English

toque

Toque comes from Middle French toque, from Arabic طَاقِيَّة ‘a kind of skullcap resulting in the form of…’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)teg-1root named by Wiktionary
  2. Arabicc. 500–presentطَاق2ṭāq‘arch’
  3. Arabicc. 500–presentطَاقِيَّة1ṭāqiyya‘a kind of skullcap resulting in the form of cupola’
  4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600toque1
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1824toque1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English toque
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Arabic طاقية
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1824, La Belle Assemblée, Fashions: “Toques are for the most part indented in the…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)teg-Wiktionary, English toqueroot named by Wiktionary
  2. Arabicc. 500–presentطَاقWiktionary, Arabic طاقيةṭāq‘arch’
  3. Arabicc. 500–presentطَاقِيَّةWiktionary, English toqueṭāqiyya‘a kind of skullcap resulting in the form of cupola’
  4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600toqueWiktionary, English toque
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1824toqueWiktionary, English toque. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1824, La Belle Assemblée, Fashions: “Toques are for the most part indented in the…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-

detective, detection, detect, tile, thug, sauna, thatch, toga, staccato, 27 more

Another origin of toque

  1. Canadian Frenchmoderntuque
  2. Englishtodaytoque

Assimilated from Canadian French tuque. Likely to be a hypercorrection from the time that toque was already in the dictionaries when they did not yet list tuque as a kind of hat. The French word tuque for hat is itself not strictly a deformation of French toque: it is also related to other meanings of tuque and to its former name bonnet à la turque (literally “Turkish-style bunnet/cap”).

Another origin of toque

  1. Spanishc. 1500–presenttocardeverb.
  2. Spanishc. 1500–presenttoque‘a touch’
  3. Englishtodaytoque

Today it means

noun A type of hat with no brim.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “toque”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Arabic طاقية. 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 *(s)teg- / toque

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