Where does “Doğu Bloku” come from?
Doğu Bloku (Turkish) comes from Turkish blok, from English block, 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.
Doğu Bloku (Turkish): Eastern Bloc
Definitions
- Eastern Bloc
Ancestry of “Doğu Bloku”, step by step
Doğu Bloku traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Turkish blok
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkish | blok | bloc |
| 2 | English | block | A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece... |
| 3 | French | Bloc | Bloc — Bloc Québécois (Bloc québécois) |
| 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 | block, log |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |