Etymology

FIFA

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Today it means: FIFA (International Federation of Association Football) Full definition →

French FIFAo ← English association football ← Middle English fotbal
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeydʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeydʰós
  3. Proto-Italic*feiðos
  4. Latinfoedus, foederis
  5. Latinfoederō
  6. Latinfoederātiōnem
  7. Frenchfédération
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  9. Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
  10. Proto-Italic*n̥ter
  11. Latininter
  12. Frenchinter-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁-
  14. Proto-Indo-European*ǵénh₁tis
  15. Proto-Italic*gnātiō
  16. Latinnātiō
  17. Old Frenchnacion
  18. Middle Frenchnation
  19. Frenchnation
  20. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  21. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  22. Frenchnational
  23. Frenchinternational
  24. Frenchinternationale
  25. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  26. Proto-Italic*ad
  27. Proto-Italic*ad-
  28. Latinad-
  29. Proto-Indo-European*sekʷ-
  30. Proto-Indo-European*sokʷéh₂
  31. Proto-Indo-European*sokʷh₂ṓy
  32. Proto-Indo-European*sokʷyós
  33. Proto-Italic*sokjos
  34. Latinsokios
  35. Latinsocius
  36. Latinsociō
  37. Latinassociāre
  38. Frenchassocier
  39. Frenchassociation
  40. Proto-Indo-European*ped-
  41. Proto-Indo-European*pṓds
  42. Proto-Germanic*fōts
  43. Proto-West Germanic*fōt
  44. Old Englishfōt
  45. Middle Englishfot
  46. Proto-Indo-European*bʰel-
  47. Proto-Germanic*balluz
  48. Old English*beall
  49. Middle Englishbal
  50. Middle Englishfotbal
  51. Englishfootbal
  52. Frenchfootball
  53. Englishassociation football
  54. Frenchfootball association
  55. FrenchFIFAo
  56. English todayFIFA

Orthographic borrowing from French FIFA.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.