Where does “V-bhloc” come from?
V-bhloc (Irish) comes from Irish bloc, 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.
V-bhloc (Irish): V-block
Definitions
- V-block
Ancestry of “V-bhloc”, step by step
V-bhloc traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Irish bloc
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Irish | bloc | block |
| 2 | English | block | A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece... |
| 3 | French | Bloc | Bloc — Bloc Québécois (Bloc québécois) |
| 4 | Middle French | bloc | a considerable piece of something heavy, block |
| 5 | Old French | bloc | log, block |
| 6 | Dutch | blok | a block; a street block; a political bloc |
| 7 | Middle Dutch | blok | treetrunk |
| 8 | Old Dutch | blok | log |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | blokk | block, log |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |
via Irish V
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Irish | V | used almost exclusively in words of recent foreign origin, though occasionally used by advocates of spelling reform movements in native words as well |