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

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)