Where does “biliard” come from?
biliard (Romanian) comes from Italian biliardo, from French billard, from French bille, from Middle French bille, from Old French bille, from Vulgar Latin billia, from Gaulish bilia, from Proto-Celtic belyom.
biliard (Romanian): billiards, pool
Definitions
- billiards, pool
Ancestry of “biliard”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | biliardo | billiards, pool; a thousand trillion |
| 2 | French | billard | billiards; pool table; operating table |
| 3 | French | bille | marble; ball; ball bearing |
| 4 | Middle French | bille | — |
| 5 | Old French | bille | stick; baton; written decree, announcement |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | billia | — |
| 7 | Gaulish | bilia | tall tree |
| 8 | Proto-Celtic | belyom | tree |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |