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”). Cognate with Old Irish blog, Latin fulcrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbluk.kɑ̃/

Noun

*blukką n

1. (West Germanic) block, log

Inflection

neuter a-stemDeclension 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)