Words that come from Proto-Germanic “balwaz”

400 words across 45 languages descend from Proto-Germanic balwaz — including B, ball, baseball, basketball, ballet, ballroom, bale, eyeball.

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English (265)

Turkish (13)

French (10)

Portuguese (9)

Russian (7)

Japanese (7)

Hungarian (6)

Italian (5)

Danish (5)

Cebuano (5)

Czech (4)

Galician (4)

Tagalog (4)

Greek (4)

Old Saxon (4)

Thai (4)

Korean (3)

Burmese (3)

Serbo-Croatian (3)

Middle English (3)

Spanish (3)

German (3)

Armenian (2)

Chinese (2)

Old English (2)

Old High German (1)

Hausa (1)

Polish (1)

Icelandic (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Dutch (1)

Catalan (1)

Macedonian (1)

Telugu (1)

Yiddish (1)

Zulu (1)

Arabic (1)

Swedish (1)

Bwatoo (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Chavacano (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Romanian (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Persian (1)