Where does “tekstballon” come from?

tekstballon (Dutch) comes from Dutch ballon, from French ballon, from Middle French ballon, from Italian pallone, from Spanish balón, from Spanish -ón, from English -ön, from English -one — sharp.

tekstballon (Dutch): speech bubble

Definitions

  1. speech bubble

Ancestry of “tekstballon”, step by step

tekstballon traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Dutch ballon

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchballonballoon; hot-air balloon
2Frenchballonball; balloon; round-bottom flask
3Middle Frenchballonlarge ball
4Italianpalloneball, football; balloon, aerostat
5Spanishbalónball; balloon
6Spanish-ónemphasizes that something is large, grand,...
7English-önForming nouns denoting subatomic particles and quanta
8English-onea ketone; any similar compound containing a...
9EnglishketoneA homologous series of organic molecules whose...
10GermanKetonketone
11GermanAketonacetone
12Frenchacétoneacetone
13Latinacētumvinegar
14Latinaceōto be sour
15Proto-Italicakēōbe sharp-tasting, be sour
16Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂eḱ-éh₁-ye-ti
17Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂eḱ-sharp

via Dutch tekst

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchteksttext; lyrics; A large size of type standardized...
2Old Frenchtextetext
3Medieval Latintextusthe Scriptures, text, treatise; text
4Latintextuswoven, having been woven; texture, structure;...
5Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
6Proto-Italic-tus
7Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₂eḱ-