Etymograph

English

Locke

Locke comes from Old Norse lykkja ‘enclosure’, from lykja ‘to shut, close’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- ‘to bend, fold, turn’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lewg-‘to bend, fold, turn’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*lukjaną‘to close, shut’reconstructed
  3. Old Norsec. 800–1350lykja‘to shut, close’
  4. Old Norse, derivedc. 800–1350lykkja‘enclosure’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1978Locke

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lewg-‘to bend, fold, turn’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*lukjaną‘to close, shut’reconstructed
  3. Old Norsec. 800–1350lykja‘to shut, close’
  4. Old Norse, derivedc. 800–1350lykkja‘enclosure’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1978Locke

Earliest quotation: 1978, 1976, Leszek Kołakowski: “It was Locke and his successors, not Hegel, who…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *lewg- ‘to bend, fold, turn’

reluctant, reluctance, leek, loke, 17 more

Today it means

name An English surname — famously held by

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *lewg- / Locke

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