Where does “blockiness” come from?
blockiness (English) comes from English blocky, 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.
blockiness (English): The state or condition of being blocky
Definitions
- The state or condition of being blocky
Ancestry of “blockiness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | blocky | Resembling a block in shape |
| 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 |