Words that come from Old English “bealo”

386 words across 44 languages descend from Old English bealo — including B, ball, baseball, basketball, ballroom, bale, eyeball, volleyball.

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English (253)

Portuguese (13)

Turkish (12)

French (10)

Russian (7)

Japanese (6)

Spanish (6)

Cebuano (5)

German (5)

Danish (4)

Czech (4)

Galician (4)

Tagalog (4)

Old English (4)

Middle English (4)

Italian (3)

Greek (3)

Thai (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Hungarian (2)

Korean (2)

Armenian (2)

Chinese (2)

Burmese (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Hausa (1)

Polish (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Dutch (1)

Catalan (1)

Macedonian (1)

Telugu (1)

Yiddish (1)

Zulu (1)

Swedish (1)

Bwatoo (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Xhosa (1)

Romanian (1)

Hindi (1)

Swazi (1)

American English (1)