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'-

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