Where does “woodblockist” come from?

woodblockist (English) comes from English woodblock, 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.

woodblockist (English): Someone who plays a wood block

Definitions

  1. Someone who plays a wood block

Ancestry of “woodblockist”, step by step

woodblockist traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English woodblock

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishwoodblockA woodcut; A percussion instrument consisting of...
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 ist

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishistA practitioner or supporter of an ism
2English-istAdded to words to form nouns denoting
3Old French-iste
4Latin-ista-ist; one who practises or believes
5Ancient Greek-ιστήςAlternative form of -τής; -ist
6Ancient Greek-τήςAppended to verbs to form agent nouns
7Proto-Hellenic-tās
Every word from Proto-Indo-European bhelg'-Every word from Proto-Indo-European bhulg'-Every word from Proto-Germanic blukką
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