Etymology

foosball

foos·ball
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Today it means: table soccer (US), table football (UK) Full definition →

German Fußball ← English football
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The story

  1. English · derived fromfootball
  2. German · borrowed fromFußball
  3. English todayfoosball

From German Fußball, itself a calque of English football.

Words from the same roots

Englishfootball all →

fútbol

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.