billiard

billiard · noun¹

1. Vulgar Latin · derived from*bilia
2. Old French · derived frombille“log, tree trunk”
3. French · borrowed frombillard
4. English todaybilliard

From French billard with the insertion of the second i and orthographic representation of the French palatalized /j/ sound, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“large tree, tree trunk”)), from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yos (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).

billiard · numeral²

1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
2. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
3. Proto-Indo-European*dwís
4. Proto-Italic*dwis
5. Old Latinduis
6. Latinbis
7. Frenchbi-
8. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
9. Proto-Indo-European*sm̥-
10. Proto-Indo-European*smih₂
11. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰes-
12. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰéslom
13. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰéslih₂
14. Proto-Indo-European*smih₂ǵʰéslih₂
15. Proto-Italic*smīɣeslī
16. Latinmīlle
17. Italianmille
18. Italianmilione
19. Old Frenchmillion
20. Middle Frenchmillion
21. Frenchmillion
22. Proto-Indo-European*kret-der.?
23. Proto-Germanic*harduz
24. Middle French[Term?]
25. Frenchmilliardbf.
26. Frenchbilliard
27. English todaybilliard

From French billiard, equivalent to bi- (“two”) + -illiard.

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