User:Jiminy Krikkitt/Names of the game

The names of the game football (soccer) in different languages are usually direct or indirect borrowings from the English "football", but several different etymologies present themselves. This table is based on the list of interlanguage links from Football (soccer), as of 22 February 2006, reproduced below. (Note that I've left off languages written in Indian, Chinese, Thai, Hebrew, and Arabic scripts because even if I did know how to read them, my computer doesn't even have the fonts to display them.)

Sokker Fussball Футбол Футбол এসোসিয়েশন ফুটবল Nogomet Futbol Fotbal Pêl-droed Fodbold Fußball Ποδόσφαιρο Futbalo Fútbol Jalgpall fa:فوتبال Jalkapallo Football Fuotbal Sacar Ball-coise Fútbol כדורגל Nogomet Labdarúgás Football Sepak bola Futbolo Knattspyrna Calcio (sport) サッカー 축구 Pediludium Foussball Vootbal Futbolas Futbols ഫുട്ബോള്‍ Bola sepak Football Voetbal Fotball Fotball Piłka nożna Futebol Fotbal Футбол Fitbaa Soccer football Nogomet Futbolli Фудбал Fotboll ฟุตบอล Futbol Bóng đá Fotbale 足球 Kha-kiû

Key
Language: Self-explanatory. Where a given language has more than one line, the first is the title of the Wikipedia article linked from Football (soccer) and the others are sourced.

Name in language: Roman letters in brackets are transliterations.

Etymology column:

LW = Loanword (more-or-less direct borrowing, usually allowing for phonological and spelling differences, of the word given in quotes)

LWS = Loanword ultimately based on English "soccer" LWF = Loanword ultimately based on English "football"

Sp = Kept English spelling

LT = loan translation or calque (word-for-word translation: e.g. Polish piłka nożna, where piłka means "ball" and nożna means "foot (adj.)")

LTC = loan translation in a Germanic language, where both parts of the compound word are cognate to English "foot" and "ball", e.g. German Fußball from Fuß and Ball