billiards

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeg-
2. Proto-Germanic*bikjaną
3. Proto-West Germanic*bikkjan
4. Frankish*bikki
5. Old Frenchbille
6. Middle Frenchbille
7. Frenchbille
8. Proto-Indo-European*kret-der.?
9. Proto-Germanic*harduz
10. Middle French[Term?]
11. Frenchbillard
12. English todaybilliards

From French billard, 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”).

Words from the same roots