köken: Uncertain. * From Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish *ballu. * From Lombardic *palla, *balla. Both etymologies ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ballô, *balluz (“ball”). Doublet of palla. Cognate with Sicilian baḍḍa, whence the dialectal doublet badda.
köken: From Middle Persian [Term?] (/xāyak/), from Proto-Iranian *Hāwyám (compare Northern Kurdish hêk, Ossetian айк (ajk), Avestan 𐬀𐬉𐬨 (aēm)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hāwyám, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”) (compare Armenian ձու (ju), English egg, Italian uovo, Russian яйцо́ (jajcó)).
köken: From daşaq: the gemination of the intervocalic /ş/ is probably due to emphasis. Similar process can be observed in aşağı, often pronounced /aşşağı/ in both Azerbaijani and other Turkic varieties. Two possibilities exist regarding the ultimate origin: * A diminutive of Proto-Turkic *tiāĺ (“stone”), i.e. 'little stone' or otherwise related to the sense 'stone'; see Azerbaijani daş. * A derivation…