balloon
要点気球
意味
- 気球,軽気球
- (おもちゃの)風船
- (気球のように)ふくれる《+out(up)》
- (気球のように)ふくれた
例文
Yanni threw a water balloon at the math teacher.
ヤニーたら、数学の先生に水風船を投げつけたのよ。
The balloon was carried away somewhere by the wind.
その風船は風でどこかに運び去られた。
"Did you hear that?" "It's a water balloon."
「今の音聞こえた？」「水風船だよ」
語源
イタリア語pallone「大きな球」から（palla「球」＋大きさを表す-one）。空気で膨らませた大きな球「風船・気球」。
ball（ボール）と同じ仲間。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The Northern Italian form, balla (“ball-shaped bundle”), today a doublet, likely derived from Old French balle, from Frankish *balla (“ball”), and may have influenced the spelling of this word. Both Germanic words are from Proto-Germanic *ballô (“ball”), *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Akin to Old High German ballo, bal (“ball”), (German Ballen (“bale”); Ball "ball"). Doublet of ballon. More at ball.