Where does “byggeblokk” come from?
byggeblokk (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål blokk, from Middle Low German block, from English block, from French Bloc, from Middle French bloc, from Old French bloc, from Dutch blok, from Middle Dutch blok — thick plank, beam, pile, prop.
byggeblokk (Norwegian Bokmål): a building block
Definitions
- a building block
Ancestry of “byggeblokk”, step by step
byggeblokk traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål blokk
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | blokk | a block; a bloc; a pad |
| 2 | Middle Low German | block | — |
| 3 | English | block | A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece... |
| 4 | French | Bloc | Bloc — Bloc Québécois (Bloc québécois) |
| 5 | Middle French | bloc | a considerable piece of something heavy, block |
| 6 | Old French | bloc | log, block |
| 7 | Dutch | blok | a block; a street block; a political bloc |
| 8 | Middle Dutch | blok | treetrunk |
| 9 | Old Dutch | blok | log |
| 10 | Proto-West Germanic | blokk | block, log |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |