Where does “potkupallo” come from?

potkupallo (Finnish) comes from Finnish pallo, from Proto-Germanic ballô, from Proto-Indo-European bʰel-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰōl-.

potkupallo (Finnish): low-level or friendly football/soccer

Definitions

  1. low-level or friendly football/soccer

Ancestry of “potkupallo”, step by step

potkupallo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pallo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpalloball; balloon; orb, sphere, globe
2Proto-Germanicballôball
3Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰel-to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to...
4Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰōl-

via Finnish potku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpotkukick; a side net steering fish towards a fyke
2Finnishpotkiato kick; Partitive plural form of potka
3Votic-ia

Words derived from “potkupallo

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰōl-Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰel-Every word from Proto-Germanic ballô