ball
Old Irish
/bal͈/
noun
Definitions
- a body part
- member of a group
- part, portion
- a colored spot
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Celtic *ballos.
Origin
Proto-Celtic
*ballos
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bull English
- bull butter English
- bull dyke English
- bull-like English
- bull-mobile English
- bull-necked English
- bull-thrower English
- bullbaiting English
- bullbleep English
- bullcrap English
- bullcrud English
- bulldog English
- bulldoze English
- bulldung English
- bulldust English
- bullfaced English
- bullfight English
- bullfighter English
- bullfighting English
- bullfinch English
- bullfrog English
- bullfuck English
- bullhead English
- bullheaded English
- bullhook English
- bullhorn English
- bullish English
- bullneck English
- bullnecked English
- bullnose English
- bullock English
- bullpen English
- bullplop English
- bullpoop English
- bullpucky English
- bullrail English
- bullring English
- bullroarer English
- bullscutter English
- bullseye English
- bullshit English
- bullshot English
- bullsnake English
- bullsnot English
- bullspeak English
- bullswool English
- bullwhacker English
- bullwhip English
- bullwort English
- chrysobull English
- permabull English
- semibull English
- stingbull English
- superbull English
- phallus Latin
- φαλλός Ancient Greek
- ἰθύφαλλος Ancient Greek
- *bhel- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰol- Proto-Indo-European
- bole Middle English
- ball Irish
- ballach Irish
- ballra Irish
- bullúil Irish
- falos Serbo-Croatian
- բոլոր Armenian
- բոլոր Old Armenian
- բոլորեքեան Old Armenian
- բոլորեքին Old Armenian
- բոլորշի Old Armenian
- բոլորովին Old Armenian
- ball Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- ball-coise Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- ball-goilf Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- ball-stèidhe Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- ballach Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- bile Albanian
- bolle Albanian
- *ballo- Proto-Celtic
- *ballos Proto-Celtic
- *bālnai Proto-Albanian
- bula-ma-kau Samoan Plantation Pidgin