Where does “lốc xoáy” come from?
lốc xoáy (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.
lốc xoáy (Vietnamese): tornado
Definitions
- tornado
Ancestry of “lốc xoáy”, step by step
lốc xoáy 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 |
via Vietnamese xoáy
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | xoáy | to swirl, to whirl |