Where does “bylyard” come from?
bylyard (Cornish) comes from English billiards, from French billard, from French bille, from Middle French bille, from Old French bille, from Vulgar Latin billia, from Gaulish bilia, from Proto-Celtic belyom.
bylyard (Cornish): billiards
Definitions
- billiards
Ancestry of “bylyard”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | billiards | A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls... |
| 2 | French | billard | billiards; pool table; operating table |
| 3 | French | bille | marble; ball; ball bearing |
| 4 | Middle French | bille | — |
| 5 | Old French | bille | stick; baton; written decree, announcement |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | billia | — |
| 7 | Gaulish | bilia | tall tree |
| 8 | Proto-Celtic | belyom | tree |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |