Where does “gió lốc” come from?
gió lốc (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese lốc, 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.
gió lốc (Vietnamese): whirlwind
Definitions
- whirlwind
Ancestry of “gió lốc”, step by step
gió lốc traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese lốc
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | lốc | vortex; tornado; block |
| 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 |