Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass. · To prevent (something or someone) from passing. · To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something). · To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play).
From Middle English blok (“log, stump, solid piece”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”). Cognate with Old Frisian blok, Old Saxon blok, Old High German bloh, bloc (“block”), Old English bolca (“gangway of a ship, plank”), Old Norse bǫlkr (“divider, partition”). More at balk. See also bloc, bulk.
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- Inherited-form mentionblokenm
- Derivation mentionblocfro
- Derivation mentionblokdum
- Derivation mention*blokodt
- Derivation mention*blokkgmw-pro
- Derivation mention*blukkągem-pro
- Derivation mention*bʰelǵ-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionblokofs
- Cognate mentionblokosx
- Cognate mentionblohgoh
- Cognate mentionbolcaang
- Cognate mentionbǫlkrnon
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