foteball
Middle English
/ˈfoːtbal/
noun
Definitions
- (Late ME) football game played with a ball, ancestor of soccer, American football, and rugby
- (Late ME) The ball that such a game is played with.
Etymology
Affix from Middle English fot (foot) + Middle English bal.
Origin
Middle English
bal
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ball English
- foot English
- lightfoot English
- *bēlą Proto-Germanic
- *beall Old English
- fōt Old English
- bal Middle English
- bald Middle English
- footeles Middle English
- footen Middle English
- fot Middle English
- fot hot Middle English
- foted Middle English
- foteman Middle English
- fotyng Middle English
- fitbaw Scots