volleyball
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Etymology edit
volley + ball In 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, William G. Morgan created a new game called Mintonette, a name derived from the game of badminton. After an observer, Alfred Halstead, noticed the volleying nature of the game at its first exhibition match in 1896, played at the International YMCA Training School (now called Springfield College), the game quickly became known as volleyball (it was originally spelled as two words: "volley ball") (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
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Noun edit
volleyball (countable and uncountable, plural volleyballs)
- (uncountable) A game played on a rectangular court between two teams of two to six players which involves striking a ball back and forth over a net.
- (countable) The inflated ball used in such a game.
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Descendants edit
- → Burmese: ဘော်လီဘော (bhaulibhau:)
- → Catalan: voleibol
- → Czech: volejbal
- → French: volley-ball, volleyball
- → Galician: voleibol
- → German: Volleyball
- → Hindi: वॉलीबाल (vŏlībāl), वालीबाल (vālībāl), वॉलीबॉल (vŏlībŏl)
- → Japanese: バレーボール (barēbōru)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: volleyball
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: volleyball
- → Portuguese: voleibol
- → Russian: волейбо́л (volejból) (see there for further descendants)
- → Spanish: voleibol, vóleibol
- → Swahili: voliboli
- → Tagalog: balibol
- → Thai: วอลเลย์บอล (wɔn-lêe-bɔn)
- → Turkish: voleybol
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French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
volleyball m (uncountable)
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From English volleyball.
Pronunciation edit
Audio: (file)
Noun edit
volleyball m (definite singular volleyballen, uncountable)
- volleyball (ball game)
References edit
- “volleyball” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “volleyball” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From English volleyball.
Noun edit
volleyball m (definite singular volleyballen, uncountable)
- volleyball (ball game)
References edit
- “volleyball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese edit
Noun edit
volleyball m (uncountable)
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷelH-
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- en:Sports
- en:Volleyball
- French 3-syllable words
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- Norwegian Bokmål terms borrowed from English
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- nb:Sports
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- nn:Sports
- Portuguese lemmas
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