Words that come from Ancient Greek βαλλίζω

400 words across 58 languages descend from Ancient Greek βαλλίζω — including B, ball, Baltimore, balloon, ballet, ballad, ballerina, handball.

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English (61)

German (32)

Finnish (31)

Dutch (30)

Hungarian (26)

French (21)

Spanish (15)

Norwegian Bokmål (15)

Norwegian Nynorsk (14)

Irish (13)

Italian (11)

Portuguese (11)

Romanian (10)

Russian (8)

Swedish (7)

Serbo-Croatian (7)

Danish (5)

Estonian (5)

Turkish (5)

Galician (4)

Afrikaans (4)

Albanian (3)

Slovak (3)

Armenian (3)

Catalan (3)

Greek (3)

Chinese (3)

Asturian (3)

Polish (3)

Persian (3)

Old Occitan (2)

Georgian (2)

Icelandic (2)

Korean (2)

Indonesian (2)

Japanese (2)

Cebuano (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Ido (2)

Vietnamese (2)

Middle French (1)

Czech (1)

Middle Armenian (1)

Sicilian (1)

Burmese (1)

Arabic (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Tagalog (1)

Chavacano (1)

Latvian (1)

Bwatoo (1)

Old French (1)

Sardinian (1)

Azerbaijani (1)

Romansch (1)

Kazakh (1)

Ossetian (1)

Thai (1)

Words from Ancient Greek βαλλίζω — 400 descendants | Etymology Explorer