Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/blukką

This Proto-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.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From earlier *blukną, presumably metathesized from *bulkną, from pre-Germanic *bʰl̥ǵʰ-no-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to balk, beam; to swell”).^[1] Cognate with Old Irish blog, Latin fulcrum.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbluk.kɑ̃/

Noun

*blukką n

(West Germanic) block, log

Inflection

Declension of *blukką (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*blukką	*blukkō
vocative	*blukką	*blukkō
accusative	*blukką	*blukkō
genitive	blukkas, blukkis	*blukkǫ̂
dative	*blukkai	*blukkamaz
instrumental	*blukkō	*blukkamiz

Related terms

*balkô
*balkuz
*belkô
*bulkô

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *blokk
- 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)

References

^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Block”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN

[1] Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Block”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN

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