Where does “steinblokk” come from?
steinblokk (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.
steinblokk (Norwegian Bokmål): a block of stone, used in building; a boulder or...
Definitions
- a block of stone, used in building; a boulder or...
Ancestry of “steinblokk”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 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 | — |
| 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 | — |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |