Where does “handball” come from?
I notice the chain provided appears corrupted with repeating entries (English billion, English black) and doesn't form a coherent etymological path for "handball."
Could you provide a corrected chain? For a word like "handball," I would expect something like: English handball | German Handball | hand + ball, or similar.
With the current data, I cannot write an accurate etymology sentence without inventing information, which violates your rules.
handball (English): A team sport where two teams of seven players...
Definitions
- A team sport where two teams of seven players...
Ancestry of “handball”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | Ball | surname |
| 2 | Middle English | bal | A ball; A rounded or spherical lump or bump,... |
| 3 | Old English | beall | ball |
| 4 | English | beal | A small inflammatory tumor; pustule; To gather... |
| 5 | Old English | hyll | hill |
| 6 | Albanian | hulli | furrow |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | hulliz | hill |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kl̥Hnís | hill |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kelH- | to rise, to be tall; hill |
Words derived from “handball”