futis etymology

Finnish word futis comes from Swedish fotboll, Finnish -is

Detailed word origin of futis

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
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.

Words with the same origin as futis

Descendants of -is
blosis dösis hyvis idis kirppis käyttis mahis metris morkkis narkkis pahis pingis samppis seinis tavis