Where does “antiblockade” come from?
antiblockade (English) comes from English blockade, from English block, from French Bloc, from Middle French bloc, from Old French bloc, from Dutch blok, from Middle Dutch blok, from Old Dutch blok — thick plank, beam, pile, prop.
antiblockade (English): Opposing a blockade
Ancestry of “antiblockade”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | blockade | The physical blocking or surrounding of a place,... |
| 2 | English | block | A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece... |
| 3 | French | Bloc | — |
| 4 | Middle French | bloc | a considerable piece of something heavy, block |
| 5 | Old French | bloc | log, block |
| 6 | Dutch | blok | a block; a street block; a political bloc |
| 7 | Middle Dutch | blok | treetrunk |
| 8 | Old Dutch | blok | log |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | blokk | — |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |