Etymology

ballow

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Today it means: Round; pot-bellied. Full definition →

Middle English balowe ← Old English bælg ← Proto-Germanic *balgiz
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ballow · adjective1

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*balgiz“bag”
  2. Old English · inherited frombælg
  3. Middle English · inherited frombalowe
  4. English todayballow

From Middle English balowe, balwe, balgh, from Old English bælg, bæliġ (“bag, purse, leathern bottle, pair of bellows, pod, husk”), from Proto-Germanic *balgiz (“bag”). Doublet of belly, bellows, and bulge.

ballow · noun2

Unknown.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*balgiz all →

bellybellows

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.