Etymology

bola

bo·la
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Today it means: A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord. Full definition →

Portuguese bola ← Spanish bola ← Old Occitan bola
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bew-der.?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰel-der.?
  3. Latinbulla
  4. Frankish*bollā
  5. Vulgar Latin*bolla
  6. Old Occitanbola
  7. Spanishbola
  8. Portuguesebola
  9. English todaybola

Borrowed from Spanish bola (“ball”) and Portuguese bola (“ball”). First attested in 1818.

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