Where does “bowlliards” come from?
bowlliards (English) 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.
bowlliards (English): A pool game that borrows aspects of tenpin...
Definitions
- A pool game that borrows aspects of tenpin...
Ancestry of “bowlliards”, step by step
bowlliards traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English billiards
| 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- | — |
via English bowling
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | bowling | present participle of bowl; A game played by... |
| 2 | English | bowl | A roughly hemispherical container used to hold,... |
| 3 | Middle English | bolle | pod; shell |
| 4 | Old English | bolla | bowl |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | bullô | round object; ball; bowl |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | ballô | ball |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰoln- | round thing, bubble; bubble; a bubble |