Where does “blokkikauppa” come from?
blokkikauppa (Finnish) comes from Finnish blokki, from French Bloc, from Middle French bloc, from Old French bloc, from Dutch blok, from Middle Dutch blok, from Old Dutch blok, from Proto-West Germanic blokk — thick plank, beam, pile, prop.
blokkikauppa (Finnish): block trade noncompetitive, privately negotiated transaction of securities which is executed apart and away from the open markets
Definitions
- block trade noncompetitive, privately negotiated transaction of securities which is executed apart and away from the open markets
Ancestry of “blokkikauppa”, step by step
blokkikauppa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish blokki
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | blokki | bloc; block |
| 2 | French | Bloc | Bloc — Bloc Québécois (Bloc québécois) |
| 3 | Middle French | bloc | a considerable piece of something heavy, block |
| 4 | Old French | bloc | log, block |
| 5 | Dutch | blok | a block; a street block; a political bloc |
| 6 | Middle Dutch | blok | treetrunk |
| 7 | Old Dutch | blok | log |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | blokk | block, log |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |