Where does “Klocek” come from?
Klocek (English) comes from Polish Klocek, from English KLOC, from English loc, from English dreadlock, from English dreadlocks, from Jamaican Creole dreadlocks, from Jamaican Creole dread, from English dread — face; forehead; front.
Ancestry of “Klocek”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polish | Klocek | toy brick, building block |
| 2 | English | KLOC | thousand lines of code |
| 3 | English | loc | A dreadlock; Alternative letter-case form of LOC |
| 4 | English | dreadlock | A single strand of dreadlocks; To put into... |
| 5 | English | dreadlocks | A hairstyle worn by Rastafarians and others in... |
| 6 | Jamaican Creole | dreadlocks | — |
| 7 | Jamaican Creole | dread | — |
| 8 | English | dread | To fear greatly; To anticipate with fear; To be... |
| 9 | Middle English | dreden | To fear or dread |
| 10 | Old English | drǣdan | to fear, dread |
| 11 | Old English | ondrǣdan | to fear, dread |
| 12 | Proto-West Germanic | andarādan | to be afraid, fear; to be in awe |
| 13 | Proto-West Germanic | anda- | against, opposing; in return, back; facing,... |
| 14 | Proto-Germanic | anda- | against, opposing; un-, de- |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂énti | opposite; near; in front |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂énts | forehead; front |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ent- | face; forehead; front |