Where does “bloc” come from?
bloc (French) comes from Middle French bloc, from Old French bloc, from Dutch blok, from Middle Dutch blok, from Old Dutch blok, from Proto-West Germanic blokk, from Proto-Germanic blukką, from Proto-Indo-European bhulg'- — thick plank, beam, pile, prop.
bloc (French): a block; a bloc, an alliance; a pad of paper
Definitions
- a block; a bloc, an alliance; a pad of paper
Ancestry of “bloc”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle French | bloc | a considerable piece of something heavy, block |
| 2 | Old French | bloc | log, block |
| 3 | Dutch | blok | a block; a street block; a political bloc |
| 4 | Middle Dutch | blok | treetrunk |
| 5 | Old Dutch | blok | log |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | blokk | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |
Words derived from “bloc”