From Middle High German socke, from Old High German soc, a West Germanic borrowing from Latin soccus (“a light shoe or slipper, buskin”), from Ancient Greek σύκχος (súkkhos, “a kind of shoe”), probably from Phrygian or from an Anatolian language. Cognate with Scots sok (“sock, stocking”), West Frisian sok (“sock”), Dutch sok (“sock”), English sock, Danish sok, sokke (“sock”), Swedish sock, socka (“sock”), Icelandic sokkur (“sock”).