Words that come from Latin “soccus”

400 words across 58 languages descend from Latin soccus — including White, socks, Whitehead, whitewashed, sock, nonwhite, whitewash, whiting.

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English (196)

Finnish (62)

Hungarian (26)

German (9)

Italian (6)

Japanese (6)

Norwegian Bokmål (6)

Norwegian Nynorsk (5)

Tok Pisin (5)

Dutch (4)

Swedish (4)

Portuguese (4)

Danish (3)

Galician (3)

Spanish (3)

Serbo-Croatian (3)

Middle English (3)

Icelandic (2)

French (2)

Cebuano (2)

Ingrian (2)

Catalan (2)

Old Norse (2)

Old Saxon (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Indonesian (2)

Polish (2)

Korean (2)

Latin (1)

Old High German (1)

Estonian (1)

Faroese (1)

Slovene (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Translingual (1)

Yiddish (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Swahili (1)

Old English (1)

Chinese (1)

Plautdietsch (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Mexican Spanish (1)

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Proto-West Germanic (1)

Northern Sami (1)

Swazi (1)

Romanian (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Esperanto (1)

Australian Kriol (1)

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Pichinglis (1)

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