Where does “fjellkjede” come from?
fjellkjede (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål kjede, from English chain, from English blockchain, from English block, from French Bloc, from Middle French bloc, from Old French bloc, from Dutch blok — thick plank, beam, pile, prop.
fjellkjede (Norwegian Bokmål): a mountain range or mountain chain
Definitions
- a mountain range or mountain chain
Ancestry of “fjellkjede”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | kjede | a chain; to :bore |
| 2 | English | chain | A series of interconnected rings or links usually... |
| 3 | English | blockchain | A shared record of past transactions in a... |
| 4 | English | block | A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece... |
| 5 | French | Bloc | — |
| 6 | Middle French | bloc | a considerable piece of something heavy, block |
| 7 | Old French | bloc | log, block |
| 8 | Dutch | blok | a block; a street block; a political bloc |
| 9 | Middle Dutch | blok | treetrunk |
| 10 | Old Dutch | blok | log |
| 11 | Proto-West Germanic | blokk | — |
| 12 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |