bloke
Cebuano
noun
Definitions
- A block; a substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish, Castilian bloque derived from French bloc (bloc, group, block) derived from Middle French bloc (a considerable piece of something heavy, block) derived from Old French bloc (block, log) derived from Middle Dutch blok (treetrunk) derived from Old Saxon *blok (log) derived from Proto-Germanic *blukką (beam, log) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bhulg'-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bhulg'-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bloc English
- block English
- blocco Italian
- blok Dutch, Flemish
- bloc French
- блок Russian
- bloc Spanish, Castilian
- bloque Spanish, Castilian
- *bhulg'- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰelǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *blukką Proto-Germanic
- blok Middle English
- bloc Old French
- blok Middle Dutch
- блок Bulgarian
- bloc Middle French
- *blok Old Dutch
- *blok Old Saxon