Where does “Basketballmannschaft” come from?

Basketballmannschaft (German) comes from German Basketball, from English basketball, from English Ball, from Middle English bal, from Old English beall, from English beal, from Old English hyll, from Albanian hulli — to rise, to be tall; hill.

Basketballmannschaft (German): basketball team

Definitions

  1. basketball team

Ancestry of “Basketballmannschaft”, step by step

Basketballmannschaft traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Basketball

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanBasketballbasketball
2EnglishbasketballA sport in which two opposing teams of five...
3EnglishBallsurname
4Middle EnglishbalA ball; A rounded or spherical lump or bump,...
5Old Englishbeallball
6EnglishbealA small inflammatory tumor; pustule; To gather...
7Old Englishhyllhill
8Albanianhullifurrow
9Proto-Germanichullizhill
10Proto-Indo-Europeankl̥Hníshill
11Proto-Indo-EuropeankelH-to rise, to be tall; hill

via German Mannschaft

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanMannschaftcrew members of a ship; team; group of soldiers...
2German-schaft-ship, -hood
3Old High German-skaftship
4Proto-West Germanic-skapiForms nouns denoting state, originally meaning...
5Proto-Germanic-skapizForms nouns denoting state, originally meaning...
6Proto-Germanicskapjanąto make, to create; to shape
7Proto-Indo-Europeanskab-to cut, split, hew, shape; to cut, split, carve,...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European kelH-
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