Where does “on-chain” come from?
on-chain (English) comes from English blockchain, 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.
on-chain (English): Occurring, validated and recorded on a blockchain
Definitions
- Occurring, validated and recorded on a blockchain
Ancestry of “on-chain”, step by step
on-chain traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English blockchain
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | blockchain | A shared record of past transactions in a... |
| 2 | English | block | A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece... |
| 3 | French | Bloc | Bloc — Bloc Québécois (Bloc québécois) |
| 4 | Middle French | bloc | a considerable piece of something heavy, block |
| 5 | Old French | bloc | log, block |
| 6 | Dutch | blok | a block; a street block; a political bloc |
| 7 | Middle Dutch | blok | treetrunk |
| 8 | Old Dutch | blok | log |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | blokk | block, log |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |