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Where does “chainwale” come from?

chainwale (English) comes from English chain, from English blockchain, from English block, from French Bloc, from Middle French bloc, from Old French bloc, from Dutch blok, from Middle Dutch blok — thick plank, beam, pile, prop.

chainwale (English): Obsolete spelling of channel

Definitions

  1. Obsolete spelling of channel

Ancestry of “chainwale”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishchainA series of interconnected rings or links usually...
2EnglishblockchainA shared record of past transactions in a...
3EnglishblockA substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece...
4FrenchBloc—
5Middle Frenchbloca considerable piece of something heavy, block
6Old Frenchbloclog, block
7Dutchbloka block; a street block; a political bloc
8Middle Dutchbloktreetrunk
9Old Dutchbloklog
10Proto-West Germanicblokk—
11Proto-Germanicblukkąblock, log
12Proto-Indo-Europeanbhulg'-—
13Proto-Indo-Europeanbhelg'-thick plank, beam, pile, prop
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