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.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *blukką.

Noun

*blokk n

1. block, log

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*blokk
Genitive	*blokkas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*blokk	*blokku
Accusative	*blokk	*blokku
Genitive	*blokkas	*blokkō
Dative	*blokkē	*blokkum
Instrumental	*blokku	*blokkum

Descendants

• 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)