Original sentence: The same goes for Dutch voetbal (voet = "foot", bal = "ball"), Swedish fotboll (fot = "foot", boll = "ball"), and so on -- the words for "foot" and "ball" are very similar in all the Germanic languages
Edited sentence: However, Irish, which like Afrikaans is native to a country where "soccer" is the most common English term for the sport, uses sacar.The Celtic languages also generally refer to association football with calques of "football" — an example is the Welsh pêl-droed.The only Germanic language which does not use "football" or a calque thereof as its native word for association football is Afrikaans, in which association football is known as sokker.The same goes for Dutch voetbal (voet = "foot", bal = "ball"), Swedish fotboll (fot = "foot", boll = "ball"), and so on — the words for "foot" and "ball" are very similar in all the Germanic languages.This echoes the predominant use of "soccer" in South African English