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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "aquila_grande" <aquila_grande@...>
wrote:
> The "swedish" word for boy (poike) is a loan from finnish (poika).
I
> once talked with a swede that was unhappy about having borrowed
such
> an important word, when Norwegians have their own word (gutt).
I wonder is there any link with the pejorative English word "get"
or "git"?
The meaning is something like "devil" or "swine" or generally an
unpleasant [but almost always male] person. E.g. "You cheeky little
get!" "What's that old git doing, over there?"
Is it known when Poika ended up in Swedish? Gustavus Adolphus' day,
or when a load of Finns came to Varmland in modern times, or older?
Ben