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Where does “microchannel” come from?

Microchannel comes from English micro- combined with English channel, which derives from Latin canalis meaning "pipe or groove," ultimately from Ancient Greek κάννα and Proto-Indo-European kat-.

microchannel (English): A television channel targeted at a small but...

Definitions

  1. A television channel targeted at a small but...

Ancestry of “microchannel”, step by step

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