frock
English
/fɹɒk/, /fɹɑk/
noun
Definitions
- A dress, a piece of clothing for a female, which consists of a skirt and a cover for the upper body.
- An outer garment worn by priests and other clericals; a habit.
- A sailor's jersey.
- An undress regimental coat.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English frok derived from Old French froc (a monk's gown habit, frock) derived from Frankish *hroc derived from Proto-Germanic *hrukkaz (robe, jacket, garment, tunic, cowl, skirt) derived from Proto-Indo-European *kreḱ- (weave).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kreḱ-
Gloss
weave
Concept
Semantic Field
Clothing and grooming
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
織
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- disfrock English
- frockish English
- frockless English
- house English
- housefrock English
- underfrock English
- unfrock English
- Frack German
- Fracksausen German
- Gehrock German
- Latexrock German
- Leibrock German
- Rock German
- Röcklein German
- Schlafrock German
- Unterrock German
- Waffenrock German
- befrackt German
- borstrok Dutch, Flemish
- hemdrok Dutch, Flemish
- kokerrok Dutch, Flemish
- onderrok Dutch, Flemish
- potloodrok Dutch, Flemish
- rok Dutch, Flemish
- rokkenjager Dutch, Flemish
- rokzadel Dutch, Flemish
- frac French
- фрак Russian
- *kreḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *rug(')- Proto-Indo-European
- *rukn- Proto-Indo-European
- rokk Norwegian Bokmål
- *hrukkaz Proto-Germanic
- *rukkaz Proto-Germanic
- *rukkô Proto-Germanic
- rokk Norwegian Nynorsk
- rocc Old English
- frok Middle English
- rokkr Old Norse
- froc Old French
- frakki Icelandic
- rokkur Icelandic
- rok Indonesian
- ffrog Welsh
- roc Middle Dutch
- roc Old High German
- rok Afrikaans
- frakki Faroese
- rokkur Faroese
- fro Norman
- Frack Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- rakk Westrobothnian
- *hroc Frankish
- *hrokk Frankish
- Frack Pennsylvania German
- faraak Fiji Hindi