fotboll

Swedish

Etymology

From fot (“foot”) +‎ boll (“ball”), a calque of English football.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (articulated) /²fuːtˌbɔl/, (in daily speech) [²fuːˌβ̞ɔl]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fot‧boll

Noun

fotboll c

1. (uncountable) soccer (US), football (UK); a team sport
2. (countable) football; the ball used in any game called football/soccer; if not clarified, usually the ball in association football.

Declension

Declension of fotboll

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	fotboll	fotbolls
	definite	fotbollen	fotbollens
plural	indefinite	fotbollar	fotbollars
	definite	fotbollarna	fotbollarnas

Derived terms

• fotbollslag
• fotbollsplan

Descendants

• ⇒ Finnish: futis

References

• “fotboll”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “fotboll”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svensk MeSH