Etymology

Polandball

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Today it means: Poland as a countryball. Full definition →

English ball ← Middle English bal ← Old English *beall
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pleth₂-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pel-?
  3. Proto-Indo-European*pleh₂-
  4. Proto-Slavic*poľe
  5. Proto-Slavic*poľaninъ
  6. GermanPole
  7. EnglishPole
  8. Proto-Indo-European*lendʰ-
  9. Proto-Germanic*landą
  10. Proto-West Germanic*land
  11. Old Englishland
  12. Middle Englishlond
  13. Englishland
  14. EnglishPoland
  15. Proto-Indo-European*bʰel-
  16. Proto-Germanic*balluz
  17. Old English*beall
  18. Middle Englishbal
  19. Englishball
  20. English todayPolandball

From Poland + ball. Coined c. 2009.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.