Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/blokk

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

From Proto-Germanic *blukką.

*blokk n

1. block, log

• Old Frisian: blok
  • Saterland Frisian: Blok
  • West Frisian: blok
• Old Saxon: blok
  • Middle Low German: blok
    • German Low German: Block
    • → Danish: blok
    • → Faroese: blokkur
    • → Norwegian: blokk
    • → Swedish: block
• Old Dutch: *bloc
  • Middle Dutch: bloc
    • Dutch: blok
      • Afrikaans: blok
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: bloko
      • → Caribbean Javanese: blog
      • → Indonesian: blok
      • → Papiamentu: blòki, blokki (from the diminutive)
    • Limburgish: blok, blók
    • → Old French: bloc
      • Middle French: bloc
        • French: bloc (see there for further descendants)
      • Walloon: blok
      • → Middle English: blok
        • English: block (see there for further descendants)
        • Scots: block
• Old High German: bloh, bloch (also piloch, biloh, from a merger with an unrelated word)
  • Middle High German: bloch
    • German: Block (see there for further descendants)