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boy

Ancestral Lore

Ancestral Lore of boy

boy
mid-13^th century - boie "servant, commoner, knave" (generally young and male)
circa 1300 - "rascal, ruffian, knave; urchin"
A word of unknown origin.
Words for "boy" double as "servant, attendant" across the Indo-European map. For instance, Italian ragazzo, French garçon, Greek pais, Middle English knave, Old Church Slavonic otroku — and often it is difficult to say which meaning came first.
A knave girl was called a boy.
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boy noun

a male child from birth to adulthood; son; an immature male
a man or boy native to a given place; man, person
a male domesticated animal and especially a pet
a male servant or an enslaved man

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~☉~	lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
⚜	classic definition
☣	artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense