Where does “deblokirati” come from?
deblokirati (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Serbo-Croatian blokirati, from Serbo-Croatian blȍk, from French Bloc, from Middle French bloc, from Old French bloc, from Dutch blok, from Middle Dutch blok, from Old Dutch blok — thick plank, beam, pile, prop.
deblokirati (Serbo-Croatian): to unblock
Ancestry of “deblokirati”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Serbo-Croatian | blokirati | to block, obstruct |
| 2 | Serbo-Croatian | blȍk | — |
| 3 | French | Bloc | — |
| 4 | Middle French | bloc | a considerable piece of something heavy, block |
| 5 | Old French | bloc | log, block |
| 6 | Dutch | blok | a block; a street block; a political bloc |
| 7 | Middle Dutch | blok | treetrunk |
| 8 | Old Dutch | blok | log |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | blokk | — |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |