Where does “blokkbokstav” come from?
blokkbokstav (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from Norwegian Nynorsk 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.
blokkbokstav (Norwegian Nynorsk): block capital, block letter
Definitions
- block capital, block letter
Ancestry of “blokkbokstav”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Norwegian Nynorsk | blokk | <br>; a block; a bloc |
| 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 |