"baseball" in seven languages

Meaningbaseball

Spanish

béisbol

/ˈbeisbol/

masc.borrowed · English baseball

Spelled the way it sounds; very popular in the Caribbean, Mexico and Venezuela.

French

baseball

/bɛzbol/

masc.borrowed · English baseball

Italian

baseball

/ˈbɛjzbol/

masc.borrowed · English baseball

Portuguese

beisebol

/bejziˈbɔw/

masc.borrowed · English baseball

Romanian

baseball

/ˈbejsbol/

neut.borrowed · English baseball

Catalan

beisbol

/bəjzˈbɔl/

masc.borrowed · English baseball

English

baseball

/ˈbeɪsbɔl/

from Latin/French · English compound base + ball

English → ItalianbaseballbaseballCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The ancestor

English baseball‘a ball game with bases’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

An English word that went the other way. Spanish respelled it béisbol; French and Italian kept the English spelling and roughly the English sound.

English relatives: base, basis