Etymology

socage

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Today it means: In the Middle Ages (and chiefly but not exclusively medieval England), a legal system whereby a tenant would pay a rent or do some agricultural work for the landlord. Full definition →

Middle English sokage ← Anglo-Norman socage ← Old French soc
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromsōcn
  2. Old French · derived fromsoc“soke”
  3. Anglo-Norman · derived fromsocage
  4. Middle English · inherited fromsokage
  5. English todaysocage

From Middle English sokage, from Anglo-Norman socage, from Old French soc (“soke”), ultimately from Old English sōcn. By surface analysis, soke + -age.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishsōcn all →

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