Where does “block-lettyr” come from?
block-lettyr (Manx) comes from Manx block, 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.
block-lettyr (Manx): block letter
Ancestry of “block-lettyr”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Manx | block | block, log, cake |
| 2 | English | block | A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece... |
| 3 | French | Bloc | — |
| 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 | — |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |