Bowl
Old English bolle, bolla, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bol ‘round object’, also to boll.
wiktionary
From Middle English bolle, from Old English bolla, bolle(“bowl, cup, pot, beaker, measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bollā, from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ(“ball, round vessel, bowl”).
Cognate with North Frisian bol(“bun, bread roll”), Middle Low German bolle, bole(“round object”), Dutch bol(“ball, sphere, scoop, dot”), German Bolle(“bulb”), Danish bolle(“bowl, bread roll”), Icelandic bolli(“cup”).
From Middle English bowle, boule, from Old French boule(“ball”), from Latin bulla(“bubble, stud, round object”). Doublet of poll.
etymonline
bowl (n.1)
"round, low vessel to hold liquids or liquid food," Old English bolla "pot, cup, bowl," from Proto-Germanic *bul- "a round vessel" (source also of Old Norse bolle, Old High German bolla), from PIE root *bhel- (2) "to blow, swell." Formerly also "a large drinking cup," hence figurative use as an emblem of festivity or drunkenness. In reference to a football-stadium 1913, originally one that is bowl-shaped.
bowl (v.)
"to roll a ball on the ground," typically as part of a game or contest, mid-15c., from bowl "wooden ball" (see bowls). Specifically in cricket, "deliver the ball to be played by the batsman," from 1755; the cricket sense is source of late 19c. figurative expressions bowl over "knock down" (1849), etc. Related: Bowled; bowling.
bowl (n.2)
"sphere, globe, ball," c. 1400, from Old French boule "ball," from Latin bulla "round swelling, knob" (see bull (n.2)). Meaning "large, solid ball of hard wood used in the game of bowls" is from mid-15c.
