Where does “KLOC” come from?
KLOC (English) comes from English loc, from English dreadlock, from English dreadlocks, from Jamaican Creole dreadlocks, from Jamaican Creole dread, from English dread, from Middle English dreden, from Old English drǣdan — on, onto.
KLOC (English): thousand lines of code
Definitions
- thousand lines of code
Ancestry of “KLOC”, step by step
KLOC traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English loc
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | loc | A dreadlock; Alternative letter-case form of LOC |
| 2 | English | dreadlock | A single strand of dreadlocks; To put into... |
| 3 | English | dreadlocks | A hairstyle worn by Rastafarians and others in... |
| 4 | Jamaican Creole | dreadlocks | — |
| 5 | Jamaican Creole | dread | — |
| 6 | English | dread | To fear greatly; To anticipate with fear; To be... |
| 7 | Middle English | dreden | To fear or dread |
| 8 | Old English | drǣdan | to fear, dread |
| 9 | Old English | ondrǣdan | to fear, dread |
| 10 | Proto-West Germanic | andarādan | to be afraid, fear; to be in awe |
| 11 | Proto-West Germanic | anda- | against, opposing; in return, back; facing,... |
| 12 | Proto-Germanic | anda- | against, opposing; un-, de- |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂énti | opposite; near; in front |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂énts | forehead; front |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ent- | face; forehead; front |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂en- | on, onto |
via English K
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | K | The ordinal number eleventh, derived from this... |
| 2 | English | kilo- | API; In the International System of Units and... |
| 3 | French | kilo- | kilo |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | χίλιοι | thousand |
| 5 | Proto-Hellenic | *kʰehliyoi | thousand |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰéslom | thousand |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sm̥- | one; with, together |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sem- | together, one |