pesäpallo

Noun

 * 1) A sport developed in Finland in the 1920s, similar to and largely based on baseball.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Swedish: boboll

Etymology

 * the initial word was likely also chosen due to sounding somewhat similar to.

Noun

 * 1)  a sport developed in Finland in the 1920s, similar to and largely based on baseball
 * 2) the ball used in this game, similar to a baseball