Where does “ballon-panier” come from?
ballon-panier (French) comes from French ballon, from Middle French ballon, from Italian pallone, from Spanish balón, from Spanish -ón, from English -ön, from English -one, from English ketone.
ballon-panier (French): basketball
Definitions
- basketball
Ancestry of “ballon-panier”, step by step
ballon-panier traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French ballon
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | ballon | ball; balloon; round-bottom flask |
| 2 | Middle French | ballon | large ball |
| 3 | Italian | pallone | ball, football; balloon, aerostat |
| 4 | Spanish | balón | ball; balloon |
| 5 | Spanish | -ón | emphasizes that something is large, grand,... |
| 6 | English | -ön | Forming nouns denoting subatomic particles and quanta |
| 7 | English | -one | a ketone; any similar compound containing a... |
| 8 | English | ketone | A homologous series of organic molecules whose... |
| 9 | German | Keton | ketone |
| 10 | German | Aketon | acetone |
| 11 | French | acétone | acetone |
| 12 | Latin | acētum | vinegar |
| 13 | French | -ate | ate |
| 14 | Latin | -ātus | ed |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | -ātos | — |
via French panier
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | panier | basket; goal; hoop |
| 2 | Old French | panier | — |
| 3 | Latin | pānārium | a breadbasket |
| 4 | Latin | -ārium | used primarily to form nouns of purpose from other nouns, such as places where things are kept or objects used for a particular end |
| 5 | Latin | -um | nominative neuter singular of -us; accusative... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *-om | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | *-oHom | — |