English
Winsock
From Windows + socket.
A compound of Windows + socket
Proto-Indo-European *sewH- ‘to give birth’
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Vulgar Latin *soccus ‘soccus, a kind of slipper particularly worn…’
Old French soc ‘plowshare’
Anglo-Norman soket ‘spearhead’
Middle English socket
English socket
Today it means
name The Windows interface to TCP/IP.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Winsock