Where does “blockheadedly” come from?
blockheadedly (English) comes from English blockheaded, 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.
blockheadedly (English): In a blockheaded way
Definitions
- In a blockheaded way
Ancestry of “blockheadedly”, step by step
blockheadedly traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English blockheaded
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | blockheaded | Resembling a blockhead; stupid; simple past tense... |
| 2 | English | block | A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece... |
| 3 | French | Bloc | Bloc — Bloc Québécois (Bloc québécois) |
| 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 | block, log |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |