Where does “nonblockingness” come from?
nonblockingness (English) comes from English nonblocking, from English blocking, 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.
nonblockingness (English): The quality of being nonblocking
Definitions
- The quality of being nonblocking
Ancestry of “nonblockingness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | nonblocking | That does not block; allowing other tasks to... |
| 2 | English | blocking | present participle of block; The act by which... |
| 3 | English | block | A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece... |
| 4 | French | Bloc | — |
| 5 | Middle French | bloc | a considerable piece of something heavy, block |
| 6 | Old French | bloc | log, block |
| 7 | Dutch | blok | a block; a street block; a political bloc |
| 8 | Middle Dutch | blok | treetrunk |
| 9 | Old Dutch | blok | log |
| 10 | Proto-West Germanic | blokk | — |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |