Where does “baleado” come from?
baleado (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.
baleado (Portuguese): shot; being hit by a projectile
Definitions
- shot; being hit by a projectile
Ancestry of “baleado”, step by step
| 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- | — |