Where does “sunblocked” come from?
sunblocked (English) comes from English sunblock, 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.
sunblocked (English): Wearing sunblock
Ancestry of “sunblocked”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | sunblock | A sunscreen with high sun protection factor |
| 2 | English | block | A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece... |
| 3 | French | Bloc | — |
| 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 | — |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |