socken
Swedish
noun
Definitions
- a parish, a municipality; the geographic area of a state church parish, an administrative unit before the Swedish municipal reform of 1863, still used in folklore, local history and genealogy
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish sōkn, sokn inherited from Old Norse sókn inherited from Proto-Germanic *sōkniz (seeking, inquiry, examination, contest, struggle).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*sōkniz
Gloss
seeking, inquiry, examination, contest, struggle
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- soken English
- *seh₂g- Proto-Indo-European
- *sekʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- sogn Norwegian Bokmål
- sokn Norwegian Bokmål
- *sōkniz Proto-Germanic
- mål Swedish
- sockenmål Swedish
- sockenstämma Swedish
- stämma Swedish
- sokn Norwegian Nynorsk
- socn Old English
- sōcn Old English
- sookne Middle English
- sókn Old Norse
- sókn Icelandic
- sokn Old Swedish
- sōkn, sokn Old Swedish
- sóğn Scanian