Etymology

nonfootball

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Today it means: Not football Full definition →

English football ← Middle English fotbal ← Old English *beall
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The story

  1. Englishnon-
  2. Middle Englishfot
  3. Proto-Indo-European*bʰel-
  4. Proto-Germanic*balluz
  5. Old English*beall
  6. Middle Englishbal
  7. Middle Englishfotbal
  8. Englishfootball
  9. English todaynonfootball

From non- + football.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.