Words that come from Proto-Germanic ballô

400 words across 30 languages descend from Proto-Germanic ballô — including B, ball, bowl, football, baseball, basketball, bowls, bowling.

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English (275)

Swedish (16)

Turkish (15)

French (11)

Hungarian (11)

Danish (9)

Russian (8)

Japanese (7)

Galician (6)

Czech (5)

Armenian (5)

Italian (4)

Tagalog (4)

Korean (4)

Cebuano (3)

Icelandic (2)

Crimean Tatar (2)

Hausa (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Polish (1)

Maltese (1)

Dutch (1)

Greek (1)

German Low German (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Yiddish (1)

Catalan (1)

Old Frisian (1)

West Frisian (1)

Macedonian (1)