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CokeEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Etymology tree Aymarader. Quechua kukabor. Aymara kukader. Spanish cocabor. English coca Niger-Congoder. English cola English Coca-Colaclip. English Coke Clipping of Coca-Cola. See coke (“cola”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cokeEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
The origin is not certain. The OED says it is first attested in 1669. The MED has an earlier attestation in the related sense of "charcoal" in 1430: Middle English coke. This may be the same word as colk (“core”) (perhaps from the notion that coke is the core of the material left after it burning), from Old English *colc (“hole, well”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz (“a hollow, depression”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʷ)el- (“to swallow, devour; gullet”). If so, cognate with Saterland Frisian Kolk (“maelstrom, depression, whirlpool”), West Frisian kolk (“maelstrom, whirlpool”), Dutch kolk (“maelstrom, vortex, whirlpool”), German Kolk (“pothole”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cokeEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
The origin is not certain. The OED says it is first attested in 1669. The MED has an earlier attestation in the related sense of "charcoal" in 1430: Middle English coke. This may be the same word as colk (“core”) (perhaps from the notion that coke is the core of the material left after it burning), from Old English *colc (“hole, well”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz (“a hollow, depression”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʷ)el- (“to swallow, devour; gullet”). If so, cognate with Saterland Frisian Kolk (“maelstrom, depression, whirlpool”), West Frisian kolk (“maelstrom, whirlpool”), Dutch kolk (“maelstrom, vortex, whirlpool”), German Kolk (“pothole”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cokeEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Etymology tree Aymarader. Quechua kukabor. Aymara kukader. Spanish cocabor. English coca Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English cocaineclip. English coke Originated circa 1908 in American English as a clipping of cocaine.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cokeEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Since 1909, by genericization from the name of the American company Coca-Cola and the beverage it produced; the drink was named for two of its original ingredients, coca leaves and cola nut.
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