Where does “baleação” come from?
baleação (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese balear, from Portuguese bala, from French balle, from Middle French balle, from Italian balla, from Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish balla.
baleação (Portuguese): whaling practice of hunting whales
Definitions
- whaling practice of hunting whales
Ancestry of “baleação”, step by step
baleação traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Portuguese balear
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | balear | Balearic; to shoot |
| 2 | Portuguese | bala | bullet, projectile; candy, sweet; ecstasy pill |
| 3 | French | balle | (small) ball |
| 4 | Middle French | balle | ball; bundle |
| 5 | Italian | balla | large bundle, torsello, bale, reap; falsehood,... |
| 6 | Old French | balle | — |
| 7 | Medieval Latin | balla | — |
| 8 | Frankish | balla | — |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | balluz | round object, ball; ball of the hand, foot, etc |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |