footballization
English
noun
Definitions
- The process of increasing the popularity of football (soccer) in a region.
- The influence of football on real-life matters such as politics, economics and the media.
- The tendency to turn issues into "political footballs".
Etymology
Suffix from English football (Canadian football).
Origin
English
football
Gloss
Canadian football
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Canadian Football League English
- antifootball English
- ball English
- foot English
- football English
- footballene English
- footballer English
- footballese English
- footballfish English
- footballing English
- footballish English
- footballist English
- gridiron football English
- nonfootball English
- Football German
- Fußball German
- futball Hungarian
- football French
- футбо́л Russian
- футбол Russian
- fútbol Spanish, Castilian
- futebol Portuguese
- フットボール Japanese
- futbol Polish
- footbal Middle English
- fotbal Czech
- fudbal Serbo-Croatian
- फ़ुटबॉल Hindi
- fútbol Galician
- ฟุตบอล Thai
- potbol Cebuano
- futbalo Ido
- futbol Turkish
- futbol Tagalog
- Foussball Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- futbol Azerbaijani
- פֿוסבאָל Yiddish
- fotbòl Occitan
- 풋볼 Korean
- futbol Maltese
- futbol Crimean Tatar
- putbols Latgalian