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From: "Paul J. Kriha" <kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz>
Subject: Re: Boy??
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stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Pascal MacProgrammer) wrote:
>
> Not so very long ago, Jorma Kyppo <jorma@jytko.jyu.fi> said...
> 
> >Does anyone know the etymology for the English word boy?
> >
> >Now I would just like to check up a funny theory I read in one of
> >books of Lennart Meri (present preisdent of Estonia). It said
> >that the English word "boy" could originate to Finnish word "poika"
> >and has floated with vikings (Swedish "pojke") to England.
> 
>   It could well be.  MWCD(10th ed) says that the word "boy" entered the 
> English language in the 13th century.
> 

Could it be related to German "der Bube" ?

PJK
