Where does “Bloc” come from?
Bloc comes from Canadian French Bloc québécois, derived from French bloc, from Middle French bloc, ultimately from Proto-Germanic blukką meaning a lump or block of wood.
Bloc (English): Bloc Québécois
Definitions
- Bloc Québécois
Ancestry of “Bloc”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | Bloc | Bloc — Bloc Québécois (Bloc québécois) |
| 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 | block, log |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |