Finnish word futis comes from Swedish fotboll, Finnish -is
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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fotboll | Swedish (swe) | Football; the ball used in any game called football/soccer.. Soccer (US), football (UK); a team sport. |
-is | Finnish (fin) | (colloquial) -er; a suffix used to form nouns and proper nouns from place names, common nouns and adjectives; gives a familiar nuance to the original word; the original word is often truncated in the process. |
futis | Finnish (fin) | (slang) football, soccer. |