boll
Swedish
noun
Definitions
- a ball; a more or less spherical object which is not hard or unyielding
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish baller, balder inherited from Old Norse bǫllr (ball, a ball, globe, glans penis, testicle) inherited from Proto-Germanic *balluz (ball) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (bubble, round thing).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰoln-
Gloss
bubble, round thing
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- futis Finnish
- *bholn- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰoln- Proto-Indo-European
- *ped- Proto-Indo-European
- ball Norwegian Bokmål
- *balluz Proto-Germanic
- *ballô Proto-Germanic
- bo Swedish
- boboll Swedish
- bollklubb Swedish
- choklad Swedish
- chokladboll Swedish
- fot Swedish
- fotboll Swedish
- fotbollsförening Swedish
- fotbollslag Swedish
- fotbollslandskamp Swedish
- fotbollsliga Swedish
- fotbollsspelare Swedish
- fotbollsturnering Swedish
- klubb Swedish
- korg Swedish
- korgboll Swedish
- neger Swedish
- negerboll Swedish
- snö Swedish
- snöboll Swedish
- snöbollskrig Swedish
- ball Norwegian Nynorsk
- *beall Old English
- bǫllr Old Norse
- bold Danish
- böllur Icelandic
- bal Old High German
- balla Faroese
- *bal Old Dutch
- bal Middle Low German
- ball Old Saxon
- pelota Occitan
- baller, balder Old Swedish
- *ball Frankish
- *bal Old Frisian
- Baul Plautdietsch
- *palla lng