Where does “Bloc québécois” come from?
Bloc québécois (Canadian French) comes from French bloc, from Middle French bloc, from Old French bloc, from Dutch blok, from Middle Dutch blok, from Old Dutch blok, from Proto-West Germanic blokk, from Proto-Germanic blukką — thick plank, beam, pile, prop.
Ancestry of “Bloc québécois”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | bloc | a block; a bloc, an alliance; a pad of paper |
| 2 | Middle French | bloc | a considerable piece of something heavy, block |
| 3 | Old French | bloc | log, block |
| 4 | Dutch | blok | a block; a street block; a political bloc |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | blok | treetrunk |
| 6 | Old Dutch | blok | log |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | blokk | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |
Words derived from “Bloc québécois”