palla
Italian (Fiorentino)
noun
Definitions
- ball
- bullet, shot
- (in the plural) testicles
- (by extension) an arduous and/or boring undertaking or event.
Etymology
Derived from balla derived from Frankish *ball derived from Proto-Germanic *balluz (ball) derived from *palla derived from Proto-Germanic *ballô (ball) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (bubble, round thing) borrowed from Occitan pelota derived from Latin pila (ball, pillar, mole, pier, globe, a pillar).
Origin
Latin
pila
Gloss
ball, pillar, mole, pier, globe, a pillar
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
柱
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- palla English
- pallone English
- pallo Finnish
- *pilotta Latin
- *pilāre Latin
- basipila Latin
- pila Latin
- pilamalleus Latin
- pilula Latin
- Ballon German
- balla Italian
- canestro Italian
- pallacanestro Italian
- palleggiamento Italian
- palleggiare Italian
- palleggiatore Italian
- pallonaio Italian
- pallone Italian
- pallosamente Italian
- pallosità Italian
- palloso Italian
- rompere Italian
- rompipalle Italian
- scassapalle Italian
- scassare Italian
- ballon French
- balón Spanish, Castilian
- pelota Spanish, Castilian
- *bholn- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰoln- Proto-Indo-European
- pilar Norwegian Bokmål
- *balluz Proto-Germanic
- *ballô Proto-Germanic
- ballong Swedish
- *beall Old English
- bǫllr Old Norse
- balle Old French
- pelote Old French
- pilar Catalan, Valencian
- pêl Welsh
- bal Old High German
- pfīlāri Old High German
- balla Faroese
- ballon Middle French
- *bal Old Dutch
- ball Old Saxon
- pelota Occitan
- pilar Occitan
- *pistlā Proto-Italic
- *ball Frankish
- *ballu, *balla Frankish
- *bal Old Frisian
- mpaddari Sicilian
- padda Sicilian
- palla Sicilian
- palluni Sicilian
- *palla lng
- balla ML