Words that come from Ancient Greek σύκχος

80 words across 31 languages descend from Ancient Greek σύκχος — including socks, sock, soc, socle, windsock, sockless, zocalo, sockdolager.

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English (21)

Finnish (10)

Italian (4)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

German (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Middle English (3)

Latin (2)

Dutch (2)

Galician (2)

Spanish (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Danish (1)

Swedish (1)

Icelandic (1)

French (1)

Old High German (1)

Faroese (1)

Slovene (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Catalan (1)

Old Norse (1)

Swahili (1)

Old English (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Mexican Spanish (1)

Proto-Finnic (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Late Latin (1)