Smoak
/smoʊk/noun
An archaic or dialectal spelling variant of “smoke.”
Did you know?“Smoak” preserves a historical spelling pattern in which Middle English scribes used “oa” for the long vowel later represented by “o_e” in “smoke.”
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*smeug-
“To smoke or emit smoke; a reconstructed Indo-European root associated with vapor and fumes.”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*smaukijaną
“To emit smoke or smolder; the probable Germanic source of later smoke-words.”
Old English
Old English
smoca
“Smoke, vapor, or fumes.”
Middle English
Middle English
smoke / smoak
“Smoke; the visible vapor produced by burning.”
Early Modern English
English
smoak
“A variant spelling of “smoke,” increasingly displaced by the standardized form.”
Modern English
English
smoak
“An archaic, dialectal, or surname form of “smoke.””