Where does “kolĉeno” come from?
kolĉeno (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto ĉeno, from English chain, from English blockchain, from English block, from French Bloc, from Middle French bloc, from Old French bloc, from Dutch blok — thick plank, beam, pile, prop.
kolĉeno (Esperanto): necklace
Ancestry of “kolĉeno”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Esperanto | ĉeno | chain |
| 2 | English | chain | A series of interconnected rings or links usually... |
| 3 | English | blockchain | A shared record of past transactions in a... |
| 4 | English | block | A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece... |
| 5 | French | Bloc | — |
| 6 | Middle French | bloc | a considerable piece of something heavy, block |
| 7 | Old French | bloc | log, block |
| 8 | Dutch | blok | a block; a street block; a political bloc |
| 9 | Middle Dutch | blok | treetrunk |
| 10 | Old Dutch | blok | log |
| 11 | Proto-West Germanic | blokk | — |
| 12 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |