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ball

“ball” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. ball (solid or hollow sphere)
  2. ball (object, usually spherical, used for playing games)
  3. ball (formal social occasion involving dancing)

Etymology

From dialectal Norwegian, from Old Norse bǫllr, from Proto-Germanic *balluz. Displaced Danish bold, which was excluded from the standard already in 1907. The establishment of the Norwegian form may have been facilitated by the fact that Danish also has bal c (“billiard ball”), a borrowing from French balle f.

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