Where does “blȍk” come from?
blȍk (Serbo-Croatian) comes from French Bloc, from Middle French bloc, from Old French bloc, from Dutch blok, from Middle Dutch blok, from Old Dutch blok, from Proto-West Germanic blokk, from Proto-Germanic blukką — thick plank, beam, pile, prop.
blȍk (Serbo-Croatian): block (a cuboid piece)
Definitions
- block (a cuboid piece)
Ancestry of “blȍk”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | Bloc | Bloc — Bloc Québécois (Bloc québécois) |
| 2 | Middle French | bloc | a considerable piece of something heavy, block |
| 3 | Old French | bloc | log, block |
| 4 | Dutch | blok | a block; a street block; a political bloc |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | blok | treetrunk |
| 6 | Old Dutch | blok | log |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | blokk | block, log |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |