English Explanatory Dictionary

-ock

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. Forming nouns from nouns, originally with a diminutive sense.

Word forms

-ock -ick -ik

Etymology

From Middle English -ock, -ok, -uk, -uck, from Old English -oc, -uc (diminutive suffix), from Proto-West Germanic *-uk, from Proto-Germanic *-ukaz (diminutive suffix). Akin to Old Saxon -ik (diminutive suffix), German -ich, Middle Low German -ken (diminutive suffix), Middle Dutch -kin, Old Norse -kr (diminutive suffix). More at -kin.

Related words

-kin -ling -en
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