Where does “-ok” come from?

-ok (Middle English) comes from Old English -oc, from Hungarian -ük, from Proto-Germanic -ukaz — Forms diminutive nouns.

-ok (Middle English): suffix forming diminutives of nouns

Definitions

  1. suffix forming diminutives of nouns

Ancestry of “-ok”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old English-ocnoun suffix used to form descriptive names from...
2Hungarian-üktheir
3Proto-Germanic-ukazForms diminutive nouns

Words derived from “-ok”

Every word from Proto-Germanic -ukaz →Every word from Hungarian -ük →Every word from Old English -oc →