Where does “temppeliblokki” come from?
temppeliblokki (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.
temppeliblokki (Finnish): temple block
Definitions
- temple block
Ancestry of “temppeliblokki”, step by step
temppeliblokki 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 |