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Where does “chanop” come from?

chanop (English) comes from English Chan, from English Channel, from English chainwale, from English chain, from English blockchain, from English block, from French Bloc, from Middle French bloc — thick plank, beam, pile, prop.

chanop (English): An IRC channel operator

Definitions

  1. An IRC channel operator

Ancestry of “chanop”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishChanZen Buddhism
2EnglishChannel—
3EnglishchainwaleObsolete spelling of channel
4EnglishchainA series of interconnected rings or links usually...
5EnglishblockchainA shared record of past transactions in a...
6EnglishblockA substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece...
7FrenchBloc—
8Middle Frenchbloca considerable piece of something heavy, block
9Old Frenchbloclog, block
10Dutchbloka block; a street block; a political bloc
11Middle Dutchbloktreetrunk
12Old Dutchbloklog
13Proto-West Germanicblokk—
14Proto-Germanicblukkąblock, log
15Proto-Indo-Europeanbhulg'-—
16Proto-Indo-Europeanbhelg'-thick plank, beam, pile, prop
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