Where does “Koopocken” come from?

Koopocken (Plautdietsch) comes from Plautdietsch Koo, from Middle Low German kô, from Old Saxon kō, from Proto-West Germanic *kō, from Proto-Germanic *kōz — cow.

Koopocken (Plautdietsch): cowpox

Definitions

  1. cowpox

Ancestry of “Koopocken”, step by step

Koopocken traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Plautdietsch Koo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PlautdietschKoocow
2Middle Low Germankô—
3Old Saxonkōcow
4Proto-West Germanic*kōcow
5Proto-Germanic*kōzcow

via German Pocken

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanPockensmallpox
Every word from Proto-Germanic *kōz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *kō →Every word from Old Saxon kō →