socket

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*suH-
2. Proto-Celtic · derived from*sukkos
3. Vulgar Latin · derived from*soccus
4. Old French · derived fromsoc“plowshare”
5. Anglo-Norman · derived fromsoket“spearhead”
6. Middle English · inherited fromsocket
7. English todaysocket

From Middle English socket, soket, from Anglo-Norman soket (“spearhead”), diminutive of Old French soc (“plowshare”), from Vulgar Latin *soccus, a word borrowed from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos (compare modern Welsh swch (“plowshare”)), literally "pig's snout", from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.

Words from the same roots