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Isn't the spanish version just Football, but in Spanish?
by orf 8y ago
Isn't the spanish version just Football, but in Spanish?
- losvedir 8y agoEh, it might as well be the equivalent of "soccer" (a meaningless made up word), since the Spanish word for neither "foot" nor "ball" are in the name. (In contrast to Chinese's zuqiu which is literally "foot" "ball").
- barrkel 8y agoSoccer is short for association football, formed analogously to rugger, which is short for Rugby football.
- rbonvall 8y agoAnother name for the sport in Spanish is "balompié", which comes from "balón" (ball) and "pie" (foot), but it's rarely used.
- lern_too_spel 8y agoIn a sense. "Fùt" is not a Spanish word, and "bol" means "bowl." They just use the English word for the game, written phonetically in Spanish.