Where does “cloggage” come from?

cloggage (English) comes from English blockage, 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.

cloggage (English): The condition of being clogged

Definitions

  1. The condition of being clogged

Ancestry of “cloggage”, step by step

cloggage traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English blockage

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishblockageThe state of being blocked; A thing that is...
2EnglishblockA substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece...
3FrenchBlocBloc — Bloc Québécois (Bloc québécois)
4Middle Frenchbloca considerable piece of something heavy, block
5Old Frenchbloclog, block
6Dutchbloka block; a street block; a political bloc
7Middle Dutchbloktreetrunk
8Old Dutchbloklog
9Proto-West Germanicblokkblock, log
10Proto-Germanicblukkąblock, log
11Proto-Indo-Europeanbhulg'-
12Proto-Indo-Europeanbhelg'-thick plank, beam, pile, prop

via English clog

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishclogA type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden...
2Middle Englishclogweight attached to the leg of an animal to impede...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European bhelg'-